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Microsoft fixes software bug that could have left devices open to malware

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Microsoft has released its latest cumulative Patch Tuesday update for May 2024, including a fix for a zero-day vulnerability that was allegedly used to deliver the QakBot malware to vulnerable Windows devices.

Among the vulnerabilities addressed this time around is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability found in Desktop Window Manager (DWM). 

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