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AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again

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Microsoft set a record with its June Patch Tuesday release, addressing 206 CVEs across its products and shipping fixes for them, with 38 deemed critical and the rest important. Three are listed as publicly known, but none (so far) have been exploited in the wild.

We have no idea how many of these June bugs were uncovered using AI tools. Unlike last month’s patching event, when Redmond disclosed its agentic bug-hunting system found 16 of the 137 vulnerabilities, there’s no word on any AI assists for new releases.

Still, it’s safe to assume AI played a major role. As Tom Gallagher, VP of engineering at Microsoft Security Response Center, said about May's Patch Tuesday with a whopping 30 critical flaws: “We expect releases to continue trending larger for some time.”

June’s Patch Tuesday proved Gallagher correct, surpassing May in both overall volume and critical bugs.

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