Microsoft May Patch Tuesday faces down three zero-day exploits, but is it too little, too late?

Charlee Gothard
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Russian hackers swarm all over bugs as company plugs gaps long after the event

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday release is seeking to plug three zero-day vulnerabilities in Office suite and Windows itself, two of which are already known to be exploited by threat actors APT28 and...

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