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Microsoft has quietly closed a years‑old hole in Windows shortcut handling that security researchers say was being steadily abused by nation‑state espionage groups and cybercriminals to hide malicious commands in plain sight. The issue, tracked as CVE‑2025‑9491 (also published earlier as...

Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday brings a focused mix of security patches and quality fixes that—for many users—will feel like cleanup duty after a rocky rollout of Windows 11 24H2; the cumulative updates (principally KB5046617 for 24H2 and KB5046633 for 23H2/22H2) resolve a clutch of...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday landed with unusual force: this month’s rollup patches a sweeping 172 vulnerabilities across Windows and related products, fixes multiple zero‑day flaws that were already under attack, removes a legacy modem driver that posed a real operational trade‑off, and...

Quick clarification before I write the full 2,000+ word article: I couldn't find any public advisory or reliable references for CVE-2025-53782. The MSRC/Exchange incident most commonly referenced in mid‑/late‑2025 is CVE-2025-53786 (a hybrid Exchange → Entra ID elevation-of-privilege issue)...

Google’s September stable update for Chrome closed a notable Use‑After‑Free (UAF) in the Dawn WebGPU implementation — tracked as CVE‑2025‑10500 — alongside several other high‑severity graphics and engine fixes; Windows users and administrators running Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) should treat...

Google pushed an emergency Chrome update to address CVE-2025-10585, a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine that Google says is being actively exploited in the wild — and because Microsoft Edge is Chromium-based, Windows users and enterprises must confirm their Edge builds...

Google released an emergency Chrome stable update that fixes a use‑after‑free (UAF) vulnerability in the WebRTC component tracked as CVE‑2025‑10501, and Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) customers should treat the issue as relevant until Microsoft ships the Chromium ingestion for Edge. Background...

Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy dose of security fixes for both Windows 10 and Windows 11 — including two publicly disclosed zero-days — but reserves the most visible user-facing improvements for Windows 11, reinforcing that Windows 10 is now in its final maintenance phase...

I can write that in-depth, 2,000+ word feature — but I need to pull the full MSRC entry and other sources first (the MSRC page you linked is dynamically loaded and I can’t read the vulnerability details without fetching it). Do you want me to fetch the live MSRC entry and other public sources...

Cyble’s latest weekly scan shows a dizzying pace of disclosures and exploitation: researchers tracked 908 new vulnerabilities in the last seven days and report that more than 188 of those already have publicly available proofs‑of‑concept (PoCs), tightening the window defenders have to respond...

CISA’s addition of a single entry to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog this week — CVE-2025-43300, an out‑of‑bounds write in Apple’s Image I/O framework — sharpens the spotlight on a zero‑day that Apple says was exploited in highly targeted attacks and underscores how quickly...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on 18 August 2025 issued a high‑risk advisory warning that multiple critical vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s product portfolio place millions of Windows and Office users in India — from home desktops to enterprise Azure deployments — at...

Windows 11 ships with a far stronger security baseline than its predecessors, but real-world attackers and configuration gaps still find workarounds—meaning Defender and Windows Security are necessary, not sufficient, for modern threat defense. Background Windows 11’s built-in...

Windows Security is a strong baseline for protecting Windows 11 devices, but it was never designed to be a human-proof, one-stop solution — there are modern threats that built-in tools cannot fully mitigate, and relying on default protection alone leaves significant gaps in phishing...

Note — quick verification before I start I checked public vulnerability databases and Microsoft’s Security Update Guide but could not find any record for the exact identifier CVE‑2025‑53133. Microsoft and NVD list several recent PrintWorkflowUserSvc issues (for example CVE‑2024‑49095 and a pair...

A use‑after‑free bug in the Windows kernel has been reported under the identifier CVE‑2025‑49761 and is described by Microsoft as an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability that can allow a local, authorized attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges; administrators should treat the advisory as urgent and...

Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge, are once again in the spotlight as CVE-2025-8580—a critical filesystem vulnerability—has been patched in the upstream Chromium project. Microsoft’s prompt response highlights how the Edge team continues to rapidly adopt security fixes from...

A major security vulnerability has been discovered in Packet Power’s EMX and EG products, exposing critical infrastructure worldwide to the risk of unauthorized remote access and control. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-8284, allows attackers to bypass authentication entirely, offering a...

Security professionals are once again on high alert as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updates its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog with three newly observed threat vectors. This evolving catalog remains at the core of the federal government’s defense...

Microsoft has released the KB5062553 update for Windows 11 version 24H2, bringing a suite of enhancements aimed at improving user experience, system performance, and security. This cumulative update, part of the July 2025 Patch Tuesday, is available through Windows Update and the Microsoft...