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AI-driven bug hunting fuels record Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Microsoft released patches for over 570 vulnerabilities in its July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including two actively exploited flaws (CVE-2026-56155 and CVE-2026-56164) and one previously disclosed bug (CVE-2026-50661). The record-breaking volume is attributed to AI-driven bug hunting, with researcher Nightmare Eclipse also publishing an exploit for an unpatched Windows elevation of privilege vulnerability dubbed LegacyHive.

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Microsoft has released patches for 570+ vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including two that are being leveraged by attackers (CVE-2026-56155 and CVE-2026-56164), and one that was previouly disclosed (CVE-2026-50661). The release was once again followed by Nightmare Eclipse publishing a stripped down proof-of-concept exploit for an unpatched Windows elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerability, which the researcher dubbed LegacyHive. Vulnerabilities of note CVE-2026-56155 is an EoP flaw affecting Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), and has … More

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