Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
2026-07-17T13:23:28Z•f1d0a876b7193a8a52723f2df1acd7121708da595386a9bfb5a648022947f670
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What happened
A batch of high-impact cybersecurity stories: Microsoft issued an unprecedented Patch Tuesday fixing roughly 570 flaws (Microsoft attributed the surge in discoveries to AI), following a record June update that fixed ~200 bugs including many critical issues. CISA experienced a public GitHub leak in which a contractor exposed dozens of internal credentials (including AWS GovCloud keys). Law-enforcement and industry uprooted a large proxy/botnet operation — the FBI seized hundreds of NetNut-related domains after research linked the Popa Android-based botnet (millions of compromised devices) to Al
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