Some timely advice for consumers seen on ZDNET: “In Windows 10 or 11, head to Settings, select Windows Update, and then download the latest updates. After rebooting, your PC will be protected.”
Here’s why you want to do that promptly:
Windows users who don’t always install the updates rolled out by Microsoft each month for Patch Tuesday will want to install the ones for June. That’s because the latest round of patches fixes a flaw that could allow an attacker to control your PC through bootkit malware.
Designated as CVE-2025-3052, the Secure Boot bypass flaw is a serious one, according to Binarly security researcher Alex Matrosov, who discovered the vulnerability. In a Binarly blog post published Tuesday, he described the problem as a memory corruption issue that exploits Microsoft’s Secure Boot.
Read more at ZDNET. And if you didn’t act on our previous alert to update Chrome, do that now, too!