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microsoft patched a privilege-escalation flaw in windows defender's malware protection engine 29 days after a researcher published working exploit code — a month-long window where any local user on a fully updated machine could gain system control via the security tool itself. separately, the dutch data protection authority attributed a 58 percent surge in breach notifications directly to off-the-shelf ai phishing kits. defensive software as attack surface and ai as commodity attacker tooling both surfaced the same week.

security trade press and dutch regulator