Blog Security Research Akamai’s Perspective on February’s Patch Tuesday 2024 A bouquet of roses is a lovely gift — but in our line of work, a patch is more welcome. As we do every month, the Akamai Security Intelligence Group set out to look at the more intriguing vulnerabilities that were patched. Of the 73 CVEs this month, 5 are critical, but we also have 2 other CVEs that were seen exploited in the wild: CVE-2024-21351 in Windows SmartScreen and CVE-2024-21412 in Internet Shortcut files. Both vulnerabilities are security bypasses that allow attackers to bypass security checks that would alert users about accessing potentially malicious files. \r\n \r\n In this blog post, we’ll assess how critical the vulnerabilities really are, and how commonplace the affected applications and services are, to provide you with a realistic perspective on the bugs that were fixed. Be on the lookout for these insights in the days after every Patch Tuesday.…