All Chrome users placed on red alert and urged to restart their browsers now

An urgent alert has been issued to all users of Google Chrome. If you have this popular software installed on your PC, you should head to the settings, update and restart it immediately. That's because Google has released a critical patch that addresses a whopping 21 security vulnerabilities. If that wasn't serious enough, one of the gremlins, named CVE-2026-5281, has been classified as a zero-day flaw.