A new and dangerous loophole in Google Chrome allows sites to spy on you and record audio and video for you without feeling

A new and dangerous loophole in Google Chrome allows sites to spy on you and record audio and video for you without feeling

A new vulnerability has been discovered in the Google Chrome browser that allows the sites you visit to tap you and record video for you, and this spyware is made to feel like a user, even though this new vulnerability requires the user to get permission to access the camera's microphone.

A new and dangerous loophole in Google Chrome allows sites to spy on you and record audio and video for you without feeling

Security expert Ran Bar Zik was able to detect this flaw and was reported by Google, but the company said it is not considered a loophole in the browser and there is no quick solution.

 Ran Bar Zik added that after he was at work he discovered this gap, especially after using a web site that uses WebRTC, a kind of protocol that allows streaming audio and video over the Internet. He said that audio or video recording in Google Chrome is usually A red circle appears on the tab which means there is a live stream. However, he added that this button does not always need to be run when granted permission, which allowed the researcher to exploit this gap and ran a pop-up window and recorded audio and video without appearing. This red circle.

A new and dangerous loophole in Google Chrome allows sites to spy on you and record audio and video for you without feeling

Although Google refused to consider that a security vulnerability, it promised to find a quick solution to it, and so far it remains to expose users to spy on them when visiting these sites until this protocol is repaired.