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Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities

Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. "Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Defender

CVE-2026-41091
SecurityWeek

Socket Raises $60 Million at $1 Billion Valuation

The company will invest in its firewall, certified patches, protection extensions, new products, and team expansion. The post Socket Raises $60 Million at $1 Billion Valuation appe…

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When Identity is the Attack Path

Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do - a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS …

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