Google Chrome will receive an update that will help protect devices connected to a home or private network.
Google outlined its plans in a post on its Chrome platform status page, explaining that the new feature will act as a monitor for requests from websites that want to access your private network and ensure they come from secure sources.
The most exact reasoning behind this feature, as Google explains in the post, is:
“To prevent malicious websites from rotating through the user agent's network position to attack devices and services that they reasonably assumed were unreachable from the Internet at large, by virtue of residing on the user's local intranet or machine of the user”.
What we know about the new feature (so far)
The feature will be called 'Private Network Access Checks for Browsing Requests' and will inspect what source the request to communicate with your private network is coming from and whether it is secure. On the other end, it will communicate with your device to make sure it has permission to access the private network. Currently, Google helps developers get their websites accredited as safe sources.
This feature has not yet been assigned to a specific version of Chrome, according to Neowin, but is expected to be included in Chrome version 123 or 124 for desktop PCs and Android devices. It's currently in the testing stages and won't start its research processes yet, unless you're a developer working with Google on this feature (so your current version of Chrome won't be able to do this until the update rolls out) . To the general public).
