Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses hundreds of security vulnerabilities, but one issue stands out because attackers were already exploiting it before a fix became available. CVE-2026-68820 is a high-severity elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock, or AFD.sys, that can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. The flaw […]
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