Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
2026-08-12T19:23:22Z•2cc8c3a12b42788895e57f34261f3d213e56492fc4b17fe1aa9ff12adfd6c933
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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity coverage highlights major Microsoft Patch Tuesday releases addressing hundreds of vulnerabilities, including actively exploited and publicly disclosed flaws; prosecutions and guilty pleas involving Snowflake extortion and Scattered Spider; abuse of smart TVs and streaming devices as residential proxies and ad-fraud infrastructure; the Popa Android botnet and related FBI seizure of NetNut domains; exposure of CISA credentials in a public GitHub repository; and concerns about an offensive cybersecurity startup acquiring zero-day vulnerabilities.
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