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Microsoft Has 62 Critical Holes
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SANS ☛ Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2026, (Tue, Aug 11th)
This month we got patches for 418 vulnerabilities. Of these, 62 are critical, 1 is being exploited in the wild, and 2 were publicly disclosed as zero-days. Notable fixes include backdoored Windows privilege escalation, container tampering, and critical QUIC and DNS Server remote code execution bugs.
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Krebs On Security ☛ Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its backdoored Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.
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Security Week ☛ August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day
A use-after-free in the afd.sys backdoored Windows kernel-mode driver has been exploited to gain SYSTEM privileges.
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The Register UK ☛ 421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one
This is an epic month for Microsoft patches, though not a record-setting one. Redmond addressed 421 bugs in its own products this month - about 200 fewer CVEs than last month, but likely the new norm with AI-assisted vulnerability disclosures and fixes.