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Anthony Spadafora

Dangerous ‘acropalypse’ bug in Windows Snipping Tool fixed in emergency security update — install it now

How to screen record on Windows 11 illustrated with a picture of the Snipping Tool on the Windows 11 desktop

Microsoft has released an emergency security update for both Windows 10 and Windows 11 which addresses a dangerous bug in its Snipping Tool utility.

The bug has been dubbed ‘acropalypse’ (tracked as CVE-2023-2803) and occurs when image editors like the search giant’s Snipping Tool doesn’t properly remove cropped image data when overwriting the original file according to BleepingComputer.

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