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Sead Fadilpašić

Update Windows now, there are some worrying security hacks on the way

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If you haven’t installed the security patches for Windows in the latest Patch Tuesday cumulative update, you should probably hurry, as experts have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a critical severity flaw allowing crooks to mount remote code execution (RCE) attacks.

The vulnerability in question, which was addressed in the latest update, released on August 13, is tracked as CVE-2024-38063, and has a severity score of 9.8 (critical).

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