Microsoft investigating reports of ‘aCropalypse’ image-crop vulnerability in Windows

Microsoft is examining reports of whether a vulnerability allowing someone to recover the cropped or redacted parts of Google Pixel screenshots also affects tools within Windows. On Friday, cybersecurity researchers Simon Aarons and David Buchanan [reported on a vulnerability](https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html) in the Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool, Markup, that allowed anyone to partially recover the original

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