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Steam gamers warned of Windows 10 security risk

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Geekz Snow

Valve's popular PC gaming platform Steam is vulnerable to a hugely damaging zero-day security vulnerability, experts have warned.

According to new findings, around 72 million Windows users are at risk of having their systems taken over by an attacker who could then install malware, steal data, compromise passwords and more.

The vulnerability was disclosed by security researcher Vasily Kravets, who discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an attacker with minimal user permissions to gain the same levels of access as the system admin.

Zero-day defenses are a good reason why you need the latest version of Windows 10

A threat actor could take advantage of this by launching malware using those raised privileges, Kravets explained, saying:

"Some of the threats will remain even being run without administrator rights.

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