Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

2026-09-09T08:51:38Z8f037b5d82a23ec7b8db7aa2d5f8518c553ded36fa7e050eb090345f15f89fb0
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What happened

Ars Technica security feed covering major vulnerability disclosures, active exploitation, supply-chain compromises, credential and personal-data breaches, AI-agent and LLM security failures, phishing and prompt-injection techniques, network hijacking, malicious proxy devices, browser tracking, and defensive technologies. The most severe items include a reportedly actively exploited macOS screen-sharing flaw enabling passwordless remote control, a Microsoft release addressing 972 vulnerabilities including 112 critical issues, and multiple large-scale supply-chain attacks exposing credentials or

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