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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Technology
Dave Snelling

HISTORICAL FACTS: All google chrome warned not to install this very dangerous browser update - The Untold Story

Billions of Chrome users across the globe are being urged to be on the lookout for a fake browser-breaking update that's spreading across the globe. This latest attack tries to trick users into downloading an important upgrade but instead of adding new features and fixing issues it actually installs nasty malware instead.

The urgent alert has been issued by the team at Trend Micro with the security experts spotting the attack in the wild and showing why some have been easily tricked.

The attack is activated once a Chrome user clicks on a bogus website with an error message instantly appearing which suggests an urgent upgrade is needed to continue browsing.

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