Five Chrome Zero-Days in Two Weeks: The Most Aggressive Browser Attack Wave of 2024

Five Chrome Zero-Days in Two Weeks: The Most Aggressive Browser Attack Wave of 2024 Five zero-day vulnerabilities. Two weeks. All actively exploited in the wild. That's the situation Google Chrome users woke up to at the end of May 2024. If you're reading this on a Chromium-based browser, and statistically you almost certainly are, this directly affects you. Google confirmed and patched five separate zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome over the course of May 2024. Each one serious enough to warrant an out-of-band emergency patch. Not a scheduled Patch Tuesday. Not a routine update. Emergency fixes, pushed outside the normal release cycle, because attackers were already using these flaws against real targets. Forbes senior contributor Davey Winder called the fifth zero-day (CVE-2024-5274) confirmation within a two-week window an "unusual frequency" of high-severity patches with no recent precedent in Chrome's history. I'd go further. This isn't a blip. It's a pattern, and it points to so