First Microsoft Patch Tuesday zero-day of 2024 disclosed as part of group of 75 vulnerabilities

Microsoft followed up one of the lightest recent Patch Tuesdays in January with a large release of vulnerabilities on Tuesday, although still far from numbers seen in the past. 

In all, February’s security update from Microsoft includes 75 vulnerabilities, three of which are considered critical. There are 69 “important” vulnerabilities, according to Microsoft, and three that are of “moderate” severity.

Although considered of moderate risk, one of the vulnerabilities is being actively exploited in the wild — CVE-2024-21351, a …

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