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Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce. (arstechnica.com)
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[-] Australis13@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago

Rather impressive how quickly the hackers reverse-engineered Microsoft's patch and used the vulnerability whilst the opportunity was still available:

The threat group, tracked under names including APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Sofacy, pounced on the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, less than 48 hours after Microsoft released an urgent, unscheduled security update late last month, the researchers said. After reverse-engineering the patch, group members wrote an advanced exploit that installed one of two never-before-seen backdoor implants.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago

And this is why quickly applying security updates is important.

[-] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Who needs a maintenance window or to test updates? Just roll the dice constantly.

this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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