The Windows 10 hangover is becoming a security problem
2026-07-20T08:51:53Z•0c173d7b40bec39933092bfcfa35717bd62e2cd8a9d9785b7b810ddbb1763e81
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What happened
This feed highlights multiple active security risks: a significant share (16.9%) of Windows devices remain on unsupported Windows 10 and are no longer receiving security updates after Microsoft ended support, creating broad exposure; WordPress released 7.0.2 to fix one critical and one high severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-60137, CVE-2026-63030) and urges immediate patching; a new Spirals ransomware strain written in Rust can exfiltrate and encrypt networks in under 24 hours; Microsoft published Dusseldorf, an open-source out-of-band (OAST) testing platform; researchers released a forensictool
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