ByDavey Winder,
Senior Contributor.
Google does a great job of issuing security warnings, from the threats posed by malicious VPNs to the steps taken to protect Gmail accounts against ongoing hack attacks. While cybercriminals happily pay bottom dollar to steal passwords from Chrome users, Google pays much more, $11.8 million in 2024 alone, to help protect browser users from vulnerabilities before they can be used to attack them. Here’s the thing: all that work, all that money, only pays off for the end user if they ensure that their web browser is up to date. Which, despite automatic security updates, means you still need to do one thing: restart Chrome. So far, in 2025, there have been no fewer than seven zero-day vulnerabilities confirmed. So, ask yourself this: when was the last time I restarted my Chrome browser?
Not all vulnerabilities are equal. There, I’ve said it. While all security vulnerabilities do, of course, need to be taken seriously, not every one will have an impact on every user, every organization, and as such, patch management always adopts a priority system which tackles the ones bringing the most danger to the enterprise first. When it comes to consumers, however, the choice is generally much easier: update already. All that said, in the unequal world of vulnerability remediation, one thing remains true: all zero-days are of the highest priority as they are, by definition, already being exploited by attackers out here in the real world. Which is why, when Google has confirmed seven of the things thus far in 2025, you’d better have taken them very seriously indeed. Let’s look at those seven, shall we?
