Firefox turns on cookie tracking protection by default, while the axe finally falls on IE
The vulnerabilities have now been patched by Microsoft
Seventeen bugs are rated as "critical" meaning they can be easily exploited by hackers to gain full control of a vulnerable machine
No zero-days patched in the latest release
The group, linked to South Korea, used bugs in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and the Windows Kernel to target North Koreans
Third-party 'Micropatch' will provide protection for out-of-support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2 users
Internet Explorer vulnerability found in the scripting engine that handles objects in memory
Thirteen vulnerabilities are rated as 'critical'
Zero-day security flaw affecting Internet Explorer is already being exploited in the wild
CVE-2018-8653 must be patched manually for now