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Sead Fadilpašić

Microsoft finally patches serious Windows kernel security flaw - but not before it was attacked

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Microsoft has finally addressed a high-severity vulnerability that it reportedly knew was being exploited for at least half a year.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-21338, was first discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Avast roughly six months ago. 

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