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Ransomware scum, other crims exploit 4 old Microsoft bugs

Ransomware scum, other crims exploit 4 old Microsoft bugs

By Jessica Lyons
Publication Date: 2026-04-13 21:35:00

Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities – one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity – according to America’s lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.

The four vulnerabilities added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on Monday are:

CVE-2025-60710, a link-following vulnerability in Windows that allows privilege escalation. After initially disclosing this bug in November 2025, Redmond fully fixed it a month later.

CVE-2023-36424, a Windows Common Log File System Driver flaw that allows privilege escalation. Microsoft patched this one in November 2023.

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