Microsoft Says Hackers Are Exploiting Critical Zero-Day Bugs To Target Windows And Office Users
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Microsoft Says Hackers Are Exploiting Critical Zero-Day Bugs To Target Windows And Office Users
Windows Zero-Day Bugs Under Active Attack, Microsoft Warns Microsoft has confirmed that hackers are actively exploiting critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows and Office to compromise user systems with minimal interaction. These one-click attacks bypass built-in security features like SmartScreen, allowing malware installation simply by clicking a malicious link or opening a tainted Office document. All supported Windows versions are affected, and patches are available now—users should update immediately to block ongoing attacks already circulating online. Credit: Deb Cohn-Orbach / UCG / Universal Images Group / Getty Images What Makes These Zero-Days Especially Dangerous Zero-day vulnerabilities represent the most urgent category of security flaws because attackers discover and weaponize them before developers can issue fixes. In this case, threat actors didn't wait. Microsoft confirmed that exploits for at least two critical bugs were circulating in the wild before patches wer…
