Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
2026-07-18T19:23:25Z•ecd9c85fcc052fa59e6d83d9e62cf4c04ad35eb71cc47a803f4e001b7fe24974
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KrebsOnSecurity collected a series of high-impact incidents and investigations: Microsoft released an unprecedented Patch Tuesday fixing roughly 570 vulnerabilities (Microsoft attributed the surge in discoveries to AI-assisted finding), following a June record release of nearly 200 fixes including numerous critical bugs and public exploit code. CISA published a postmortem after a contractor exposed internal credentials (including AWS GovCloud keys) in a public GitHub repo for months. Law enforcement actions and criminal links were highlighted: the FBI seized hundreds of domains linked to NetN
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