Patch Alert: Microsoft Fixes Nearly 80 Bugs, Including Critical Office Flaws

2026-03-12T08:52:02Za83b5d07534ac7ed70371ee54e8c3aab261f97d7ff9557a3915c57a32063089c
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What happened

Multiple high-impact security stories: Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday addresses 78 vulnerabilities (including Office preview-pane flaws, an Excel Copilot data-leak risk and an AI-discovered CVSS 9.8 issue). Google released a large Android update fixing 129 flaws including an actively exploited Qualcomm zero-day. A critical Cisco SD‑WAN vulnerability was used in a global espionage campaign (Five Eyes advisory). The Coruna exploit kit chained 23 iOS bugs to compromise thousands of iPhones. LexisNexis confirmed a breach tied to the unpatched “React2Shell” vulnerability exposing ~3.9M records. O�

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