Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Windows Defender ShieldCrash Exploit Bypasses Patch
A new Windows Defender ShieldCrash exploit went public on September 9, granting SYSTEM-level access on fully patched Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems, including machines that had already installed Microsoft’s own September Patch Tuesday fix for the previous bug in the same family. No CVE has been assigned, and no patch or official…
Read MoreWindows Defender Zero-Day Vulnerability Has No Patch
A Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability disclosed on August 12, 2026 lets a low-privileged local attacker bypass Microsoft’s own patch for an earlier Defender flaw and escalate straight to SYSTEM. Tracked as CVE-2026-69414 and nicknamed ShieldBreak, the flaw still has no fix ten days after Microsoft assigned the CVE. Any Windows endpoint running default Defender is…
Read MoreMicrosoft Entra ID RCE Vulnerability Exploited
Microsoft disclosed a maximum-severity Microsoft Entra ID RCE vulnerability on August 20, 2026, and confirmed the flaw was already being exploited in the wild before the advisory went public. CVE-2026-69836 carries a CVSS score of 10.0, needs no authentication and no user interaction, and sits in the identity backbone underneath Microsoft 365, Azure AD sign-in,…
Read MoreWindows IKE RCE: Patched in April, Exploited Now
CVE-2026-33824 Windows IKE RCE has gone from a quietly patched bug in April to an actively exploited flaw four months later: CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 18, 2026, giving U.S. federal agencies until August 21 to patch — while Microsoft’s own advisory still lists it as not exploited. What…
Read MoreCVE-2026-68820 WinSock Zero-Day: Lazarus Deploys Rootkit
The CVE-2026-68820 WinSock zero-day was already being used by North Korea’s Lazarus Group to plant a kernel-mode rootkit weeks before Microsoft shipped a fix in its August 2026 Patch Tuesday. Any Windows endpoint that processes network sockets — which is to say, essentially every Windows machine on your network — was exposed until this month’s…
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