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  1. Native Sysmon Arrives in Windows 11 Insider Preview as Optional Feature

    Microsoft’s latest Insider flights are intentionally small but strategically significant: the Dev and Beta channels each received preview updates that primarily deliver a single new capability — native Sysmon — alongside a grab-bag of reliability and UI fixes. The delivery model and rollout...
  2. Sysmon Goes Native in Windows 11 and Server 2025 — What Enterprises Need to Know

    Microsoft will ship Sysinternals’ long‑favored System Monitor (Sysmon) functionality as a native, optional feature in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 in early 2026, moving the telemetry staple from a standalone Sysinternals download into the Windows servicing pipeline and promising built‑in...
  3. Sysmon Goes Native in Windows 11 and Server 2025 Telemetry Reimagined

    Microsoft is shipping Sysmon functionality as a native, optional Windows feature—bringing the high-fidelity forensic telemetry that used to live only in the Sysinternals toolkit directly into Windows 11 and Windows Server and making it manageable through the operating system’s feature controls...
  4. Sysmon Goes Native: Windows Integrates System Monitor for Easier Security Telemetry

    Microsoft is shipping System Monitor (Sysmon) functionality as a built‑in Windows capability next year, moving the venerable Sysinternals monitoring tool from a standalone download into the Windows servicing pipeline and official support surface — a shift that promises easier deployment...
  5. Native Sysmon in Windows: Simplifying Enterprise Telemetry

    Microsoft will ship native Sysmon functionality inside Windows, a move that promises to turn the longtime Sysinternals staple for deep endpoint visibility into a formally supported, update‑managed OS capability and to dramatically simplify how organizations collect forensic‑grade telemetry...
  6. Native Sysmon in Windows: Simplified Telemetry for Enterprise Security

    Microsoft is bringing Sysmon — the long-favored Sysinternals tool for deep Windows telemetry — into Windows itself as an optional, native capability for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025, a change that promises to simplify deployment, add official support, and shift how enterprises collect...
  7. Microsoft Windows Security Push: PQC, Passkeys, Zero Trust for Enterprise

    Microsoft’s recent security push for Windows 11 stitches together long‑running platform hardening with a clear push toward crypto‑agility, improved telemetry for defenders, and tighter controls over drivers, apps and networking — a package aimed at reducing catastrophic outages while preparing...
  8. Windows native Sysmon telemetry: easier deployment and richer security visibility

    Microsoft has quietly but materially changed the Windows security landscape by announcing that Sysmon functionality will soon be available natively in Windows, bringing the powerful Sysinternals system‑monitoring telemetry directly into the operating system and removing one friction point for...
  9. CVE-2025-54109: Windows Defender Firewall Service Privilege Elevation

    CVE-2025-54109 Windows Defender Firewall Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Summary What it is: CVE-2025-54109 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability described by Microsoft as "Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion')" in the Windows Defender Firewall...
  10. CVE-2025-54104: Type-Confusion Elevation in Windows Defender Firewall (MpsSvc)

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide records CVE-2025-54104 as an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service caused by an “access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’)” — in short, a type‑confusion bug in a privileged service that an authorized...
  11. CIMPLICITY CWE-427: Patch with 2024 SIM 4

    GE Vernova’s CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA platform has been flagged in a recently circulated advisory as vulnerable to an Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE‑427) issue that, under the right local conditions, could allow a low‑privileged user to escalate privileges on affected hosts — the advisory...
  12. PC Manager Local Privilege Escalation: Patch, Detect, and Hunt (2025)

    When a vendor-side advisory and a CVE identifier don’t line up, the first — and most important — job for defenders and researchers is to stop, verify, and update the record. I tried to open the MSRC page you gave and could not find any public advisory, nor could I find any authoritative...
  13. CVE-2025-7973: Privilege Escalation in FactoryTalk ViewPoint 14.x

    A critical local privilege‑escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint (versions 14.00 and prior) that allows an attacker with local access to escalate to SYSTEM by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior — the issue is tracked as CVE‑2025‑7973 and has been...
  14. CVE-2025-7973: Privilege Escalation in Rockwell FactoryTalk ViewPoint

    A high-severity privilege-escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint that allows a local attacker to escalate to SYSTEM privileges by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior; the issue (CVE-2025-7973) carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5 and affects FactoryTalk...
  15. Siemens DLL Hijacking (CVE-2025-30033) - Mitigations for Web Installer

    Siemens ProductCERT has confirmed a widespread DLL-hijacking flaw in the Siemens Web Installer used by its Online Software Delivery (OSD) mechanism — tracked as CVE‑2025‑30033 — that can allow arbitrary code execution during installation, carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5, and affects dozens...
  16. Windows Storage Port Driver Info Disclosure: Patch June 2025 (CVE-2025-32722)

    Note: I couldn’t find any authoritative record for CVE-2025-53156 in the major public vulnerability databases (MSRC / NVD / MITRE / CVE.circl / CVE Details) as of August 12, 2025. The Storage Port Driver information-disclosure vulnerability widely reported in Microsoft’s June 2025 updates is...
  17. PrintWorkflowUserSvc Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation: Patch Guidance for Administrators

    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...
  18. How to Detect and Remove Legacy VBScript Dependencies in Windows 11

    Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) has long held a crucial role in Windows environments, powering everything from automated administrative tasks to classic web pages crafted during an earlier era of the internet. Now, with Microsoft’s phased deprecation of VBScript and its upcoming...
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    Windows 10 strange path in sysmon logs

    Hello In Windows 10 Enterprise 22 H2, a strange path in TargetFilename sometimes appears in Sysmon logs: TargetFilename: C:\Users\P310C~1.ZNO\AppData\Local\Temp\7b542cd6-d613-4e52-bfdf-b80fe911ff30.tmp And in the next event, the path is normal: TargetFilename...