Two Microsoft Windows bugs under attack, one in Secure Boot with a manual fix
May's Patch Tuesday brings some good and some bad news, and if you're a glass-half-full type, you'd lead off with Microsoft's relatively low number of security fixes: a mere 38.
Your humble vulture, however, is a glass-half-empty-and-who-the-hell-drank-my-whiskey kind of bird, so instead of looking on the bright side, we're looking at the two Microsoft bugs that have already been found and exploited by miscreants. Plus a third vulnerability, which has been publicly disclosed. We'd suggest patching these three stat.
"This type of privilege escalation is usually combined with a code execution bug to spread malware," Zero Dan Initiative's Dustin ChildsRedmond credited Avast bug hunters Jan Vojtešek, Milánek, and Luigino Camastra with finding and disclosing the bug.
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