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Brash Exploit Crashes Chromium Browsers via Title API

⚠️ Security researcher Jose Pino disclosed "Brash", a severe flaw in the Blink rendering engine that can crash many Chromium-based browsers within 15–60 seconds via a single malicious URL. The root cause is missing rate limiting on the document.title API, enabling attackers to inject millions of DOM mutations per second and saturate the browser UI thread. Pino describes a three-phase technique — hash generation, burst injection, and UI-thread saturation — and warns the code can be time-triggered to act like a logic bomb. Affected products include Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc, Dia, and some AI browser interfaces; Firefox and Safari are not vulnerable.

Chromium Blink flaw crashes Chrome, Edge; exploit published

⚠ A researcher, Jose Pino, published a proof-of-concept on October 29 demonstrating a Blink rendering-engine flaw that can crash Chrome, Microsoft Edge and several other Chromium-based browsers within seconds by flooding document.title updates. Pino says he reported the issue to Google on August 28 and, after no response, released the PoC to force public attention. The exploit saturates the main thread with millions of DOM mutations per second, producing rapid CPU spikes, tab freezes and eventual process termination, and it raises particular concern for headless and automated enterprise workflows.

Stealit Campaign Abuses Node.js Single Executable Packaging

🔍 FortiGuard Labs identified an active Stealit campaign that distributes malware packaged with Node.js Single Executable Application (SEA) technology to create standalone Windows binaries. Operators deliver fake game and VPN installers via file-sharing sites and Discord, using multi-layer obfuscation and in-memory execution. The modular payloads harvest browser data, extension-based crypto wallets, and provide remote access, with persistence via a startup Visual Basic script. Fortinet provides detections and recommends updating protections and user training.