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Windows 11 August 2025 security update is causing unintended UAC prompts to appear for non-admin users — some apps are crashing

Microsoft's latest August 2025 security update is wreaking havoc on non-admin users across several versions of Windows 10 and 11, preventing app installations from occurring in certain cases.
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High-Severity Windows UAC Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation

Further details of the flaw, which has recently been patched by Microsoft, were disclosed Tuesday by researchers. Researchers disclosed details of a high-severity Microsoft Windows vulnerability that ...
Bleeping Computer

Old Windows ‘Mock Folders’ UAC bypass used to drop malware

A new phishing campaign targets organizations in Eastern European countries with the Remcos RAT malware with aid from an old Windows User Account Control bypass discovered over two years ago. The use ...
EDN

Avecto Releases Privilege Guard 2.5 and Extends Windows 7 UAC Capabilities

MANCHESTER, England, February 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Avecto Ltd, the most trusted name in least privilege management forWindows systems, today announced the release of Privilege Guard 2.5, ...