Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
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What happened
A batch of Ars Technica security stories (Jun–Jul 2026) highlights multiple high-impact trends and active threats: a Windows 0-day tied to a capability named HiveLegacy released alongside a record Microsoft patch run; unrevoked Secure Boot “shims” enabling long-standing Secure Boot bypasses; CISA warnings about Russian state actors targeting consumer routers; a Windows Defender 0-day patch that could be abused to fill disks; high-severity Linux guest-to-host escape(s) paid by Google; widespread AI-related abuse (prompt-injection, LLM-driven botnet assembly, hallucination-based attacks and Copi
Why it matters
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- arstechnica_security
- Record identifier
- f413640aa53e846ee5aeacc7931aa686aad27ba8316052dce00373eeb315ba22
- Enrichment time
- 2026-07-15T20:51:55Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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