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Microsoft admins wail and gnash their teeth

It’s another doozy of a Patch Tuesday, with Microsoft fixing 1,094 bugs in its products, including one that attackers exploited before Redmond released a patch. Jake Knott, head of threat intelligence at exposure management firm watchTowr, succinctly said in an email to The Register : “Maybe we should just go home.”

“Most security teams haven’t quite recovered from the last month of bumper-to-bumper critical vulnerabilities, emergency patches, and ‘2shell’-branded everything, and we’re yet again at another Patch Tuesday,” Knott told us.

Starting with the zero-day: It’s an Outlook spoofing vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-124194 , and it only garnered a 6.5 out of 10 CVSS rating.…