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Microsoft’s Security Update Guide records CVE-2025-58739 as a Windows File Explorer vulnerability that exposes sensitive information and can be abused for network‑level spoofing, a bug administrators should treat with urgency even though public technical detail remains intentionally minimal...

Microsoft has recorded CVE-2025-59185 as an external control of file name or path vulnerability in Windows Core Shell that Microsoft classifies as a spoofing issue and that security trackers map into the broader family of NTLM hash‑disclosure and spoofing problems that have been actively...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivered a broad, operationally important set of security updates on September 9, 2025, covering Windows, Microsoft Office, SQL Server and related platform components — with industry trackers reporting roughly 80–86 CVEs patched and several high‑priority...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday consolidates a large and varied set of fixes: Microsoft shipped updates covering roughly eighty CVEs across 15 product families, with a cluster of Elevation of Privilege (EoP) and Remote Code Execution (RCE) issues dominating the tally and a small set of...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally urgent security package: more than 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, Azure components and developer libraries, including eight items Microsoft rates critical and two vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed before the...

Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally important security payload: this cycle addresses roughly 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure, Hyper‑V and related components, including several critical remote‑code‑execution (RCE) and elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) flaws...

Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday shipped a wide-ranging set of fixes addressing 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, virtualization, and platform components — with eight rated Critical and 72 rated Important — and included several high-profile fixes for SMB, NTLM, NTFS, Office, SharePoint...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday arrived with a broad set of fixes and a matching set of detection updates from Cisco Talos — including a new Snort ruleset — aimed at the most likely-to-be-exploited flaws this month. The update package contains dozens of CVEs spanning Windows core components...

Microsoft’s advisory that an improper authentication vulnerability in Windows NTLM can let an authenticated actor elevate privileges over the network is the latest warning flag in a year already crowded with NTLM-related incidents and active exploitation chains. The vendor entry the user...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-54895 warns that an integer overflow or wraparound in the SPNEGO Extended Negotiation (NEGOEX) security mechanism can be triggered by an authorized local actor to elevate privileges, turning a legitimate local account into a pathway to SYSTEM-level control if...

Rockwell Automation’s ThinManager has been flagged for a high-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) flaw that can expose an industrial control system’s ThinServer service account NTLM credentials, according to a federal advisory reissued on September 9, 2025. The vulnerability—tracked...

August 12’s cumulative rollup for Windows Server 2022 (KB5063880, OS Build 20348.4052) is a pivotal update that continues Microsoft’s multi-year campaign to harden identity and boot integrity in Windows environments—most notably by reinforcing the Microsoft RPC Netlogon protocol against...

Microsoft's recent servicing cycle for Windows Server 2022 ties together two urgent security themes: Microsoft has pushed a cumulative update (KB5063880) that carries fixes and quality improvements while reiterating critical remediation guidance for a Netlogon Remote Protocol hardening released...

Microsoft’s August Patchday reads like a wake‑up call: a newly disclosed Kerberos-related weakness tied to the delegated Managed Service Account (dMSA) feature in Windows Server 2025 can — under the right conditions — let an attacker escalate to domain‑admin control, and a clutch of additional...

Microsoft's August security rollup is one of those months that makes system administrators stop what they're doing and triage: this Patch Tuesday delivered fixes for a broad sweep of vulnerabilities across Windows, Exchange, Azure and related services — including a publicly disclosed Kerberos...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53778 as an improper authentication vulnerability in the Windows NTLM implementation that can allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network, and administrators should treat it as a high-priority authentication risk until every...

Microsoft's security update for a Windows File Explorer flaw underscores a long-standing risk vector: trusted UI components that implicitly parse untrusted content. In March 2025 Microsoft disclosed and patched a Windows File Explorer spoofing vulnerability that could cause Explorer to...

Microsoft's March 2025 Patch Tuesday brought an extensive lineup of bug fixes, but among these was a vulnerability that would quickly escalate into a significant security incident: CVE-2025-24054, an NTLM hash-leaking flaw. While Microsoft initially considered this vulnerability "less likely" to...

The latest threat to Windows security—CVE-2025-24054—has thrust NTLM (NT LAN Manager) authentication back into the cybersecurity spotlight, exposing both the fragility of long-standing authentication mechanisms and the urgent need for modernization in enterprise architectures. As organizations...

Once upon a time in the bustling land of corporate IT, passwords roamed freely through Windows networks, blissfully unaware that NTLM—the venerable but rather creaky gatekeeper of authentication—was about to get a rude awakening courtesy of modern cybercriminals. The NTLM Elephant in the Room...