Kaspersky claims credit for finding critical Windows security flaw being actively exploited in the wild

Nicholas Fearn
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While patched last week, Kaspersky claims attackers are exploiting the flaw in a string of new attacks to take full control of targets' PCs

Attackers have been trying to exploit a new vulnerability in the Windows operating system, according to security researchers. The flaw, which was discovered by Vasily Berdnikov and Boris Larin o...

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