Stop from being hacked by getting this critical Windows update now

If you are running Windows on your devices, this story is critically important to you. You see, recently, a significant security breach rocked Microsoft.  Luckily its tech experts were able to fix it – and you can avoid the trouble they found by following this story.

However, this is an important reminder for all of us to always have our devices as up-to-date as possible and to be on the lookout for potential scammers trying to obtain our private information.

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What was the security issue with Microsoft

Hackers figured out a way to bypass a security feature on Windows devices by using standalone JavaScript files to exploit what is known as CVE-2022-44698 zero-day, or SmartScreen. By exploiting this, the hackers were able to override SmartScreen, a warning popup designed to appear when suspicious activity is being downloaded onto a Windows device.

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Once this was done, hackers could trick Windows users into downloading malicious content onto their devices because there was no warning to stop them from doing so.

How did the hackers manage to exploit the security feature

Experts at Microsoft closely examined the issue and discovered that there are only 3 possible ways for the security feature to have been exploited:

• The hacker could have hosted a malicious website that exploited the security feature bypass
• The hacker could have sent the victim a specially crafted URL file via email to exploit the bypass
• The security feature bypass could be exploited via compromised websites or websites that accept or host user-provided content