Google Warns of In the Wild Exploit as It Patches New Chrome Zero Day

Google released an emergency security update on February 13 to patch CVE-2026-2441, a high-severity Chrome zero-day that allows remote code execution via crafted HTML/CSS. The company confirmed an exploit exists in the wild and credited researcher Shaheen Fazim for reporting the issue; users are urged to apply the patch promptly to mitigate active exploitation.