The crypto industry has received notable security alerts in the last 24 hours. First, Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet shared about a major security update for Chrome web browser, which addresses 26 distinct vulnerabilities (4 critical and 22 high) that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute malicious code remotely.

These vulnerabilities primarily consist of classic memory management errors such as use-after-free conditions, heap buffer overflows and out-of-bounds access. Hence, an attacker can lure a victim to a maliciously crafted webpage, write payloads directly into system memory and achieve remote code execution.

This critical patch cycle is designed to remediate multiple severe memory corruption flaws that pose significant…