Google's research team has launched v8CTF, a capture-the-flag (CTF) challenge focused on its Chrome browser’s V8 JavaScript engine. The competition opened on October 6, 2023, and is accessible to any ...

Chrome users need to update their browsers immediately as Google addresses a critical vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting. Additional security measures are recommended.

The first high-severity bug, CVE-2025-8027, impacts the browser’s JavaScript engine, which only writes partial return values ...

For now, Google has only said CVE-2023-3079 pertains to a “type confusion” vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine for Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, which would include Microsoft ...

One individual who discovered a persistent and long-standing bug in the V8 JavaScript engine's Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler took home a $30,000 reward.

All four vulnerabilities are categorized as “high risk” by Google. The type confusion issue in the V8 JavaScript engine was included twice this week (CVE-2024-7969, CVE-2024-8194).

The researchers demonstrated the effectiveness of TIKTAG-v2 gadgets against the Google Chrome browser, particularly the V8 JavaScript engine, opening up the path to exploiting memory corruption ...

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that is built on the JavaScript engine that Chrome uses, V8. One of the main updates in this release is that the V8 engine was updated to version 11.8.