Alert: Government issues high level warning for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high level warning regarding Google Chrome and Mozilla browsers. CERT-In has said that flaws in Chrome and Mozilla can pass on personal data of users to hackers. According to the agency, all types of security can be bypassed due to this bug.

According to CERT-In, the version of Chrome browser before 96.0.4664.209 has a number of bugs that hackers can take advantage of. These bugs have been identified by Google as CVE-2021-43527, CVE-2022-1489, CVE-2022-1633, CVE-202-1636, CVE-2022-1859, CVE-2022-1867 and CVE-2022-23308. is of.

The agency has asked users to update their Mozilla Firefox and Chrome browsers as soon as possible. Versions of Mozilla Firefox iOS before 101 have many problems. These problems of Mozilla are placed in the category of high level bugs.

Mozilla has released a new update to fix this bug. The company has asked users to download Mozilla Firefox iOS 101, Mozilla Firefox Thunderbird version 91.10, Mozilla Firefox ESR version 91.10 and Mozilla Firefox version 101.

According to CERT-In, due to these bugs on Mozilla and Chrome browsers, there is a risk of Denial of Service (DoS) attack. In this attack, the user is not able to access his information, while the hacker has information about the users’ e-mail id, website and other accounts.

Last month also CERT-in issued a warning regarding Google Chrome. The agency had said that there is a bug in Google Chrome, taking advantage of which hackers can steal people’s personal information. According to CERT-In, there was a very dangerous security bug in version 100 of Google Chrome.