The US National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a major flaw in Windows 10 that could have been used by hackers to create malicious software that looked legitimate.
Microsoft has issued a patch and said it had seen no evidence of the bug being exploited by hackers.
The issue was revealed during an NSA press conference.
It was not clear how long it had known about it before revealing it to Microsoft.
Brian Krebs, the security expert who first reported the revelation, said the software giant had sent the patch to branches of the US military and other high-level users ahead of its wider release. It was, he wrote, “extraordinarily scary”.
By BBC News
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