Google Releases Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google has issued an urgent update for its Chrome browser, addressing a high-severity zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2026-85046, which is currently being exploited. The flaw, a type confusion bug in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, could enable remote code execution via malicious HTML. This marks the sixth Chrome zero-day patched this year, highlighting ongoing browser security challenges.