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Microsoft is aware of the exploitation in the wild of six vulnerabilities, and it notes public disclosure for three of them.

Microsoft has fixed a "remote code execution" vulnerability in Windows 11 Notepad that allowed attackers to execute local or ...

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into ...

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It's officially time to let go. Windows 10 has been over as we know it for some time now, only for Windows 11 to have taken over. To finalize things even further, Microsoft ended support for the ...

Clicking the malicious links could launch "unverified protocols." ...