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New Windows Themes zero-day gets free, unofficial patches

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New Windows Themes zero-day vulnerability allows attackers to steal a target's NTLM credentials remotely.

ACROS Security researchers discovered the bug while developing a micropatch for a security issue tracked as CVE-2024-38030 that could leak a user's credentials.

The company now provides free and unofficial patches for this bug through its 0patch micropatching service for all affected Windows versions until official fixes are available.

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