Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
2026-07-15T13:23:29Z•7cb48a123bcdc0321eb6870c12ca81bc3fb388f8184f3743d71806bd49f7a609
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What happened
Collection of KrebsOnSecurity reports (May–July 2026) covering multiple high-impact cybersecurity developments: Microsoft shipped a record 570 fixes in July (and nearly 200 in June) — many discovered with AI assistance and including numerous critical bugs and public exploits; CISA published a postmortem after a contractor exposed dozens of internal credentials (including AWS GovCloud keys) in a public GitHub repo; the FBI seized hundreds of NetNut domains and disrupted the Popa Android-based botnet (linked by researchers to publicly traded Alarum Technologies) that abused millions of consumer/
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