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Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped (thehackernews.com)
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..."The vulnerable driver ships with every version of Windows, up to and including Server 2025," Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at Rapid7, said. "Maybe your fax modem uses a different chipset, and so you don't need the Agere driver? Perhaps you've simply discovered email? Tough luck. Your PC is still vulnerable, and a local attacker with a minimally privileged account can elevate to administrator."...

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Yeah, they did the same for Win7 for a long time. Win7 was so widely used (and people were so hesitant to upgrade after the awful 8/8.1 mess) that like 25-30% of all the computers in the world were still using it several years after support officially ended. It forced MS to continue issuing critical vulnerability patches for Win7, long after support officially ended. Because they didn’t want to be responsible for creating a massive “literally a quarter of all PCs in the world” botnet when they stopped patching things.

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