Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Edition
2026-03-11T07:23:31Z•47c397a6f8987f93ac5f3e43fce458a8c4104e2ceaa7855892d7e719785aa759
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What happened
This collection of KrebsOnSecurity items highlights multiple active and emerging threats: Microsoft’s March 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 77 vulnerabilities (no new public zero-days this month), but some patches warrant rapid attention. A stealthy phishing‑as‑a‑service called “Starkiller” proxies real target sites to relay credentials and MFA codes in real time, effectively defeating many basic anti‑phishing measures. The Kimwolf IoT botnet (reported >2M infected devices) is being used for massive DDoS campaigns, disrupting the I2P anonymity network, and its operators (including a figure known as “
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