{"id":242876,"date":"2026-08-19T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/cisa-windows-task-host-flaw-now-exploited-by-ransomware-gangs"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:19:07","slug":"cisa-windows-task-host-flaw-now-exploited-by-ransomware-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/cisa-windows-task-host-flaw-now-exploited-by-ransomware-gangs","title":{"rendered":"CISA: Windows Task Host flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisa-windows-task-host-flaw-now-exploited-by-ransomware-gangs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a high-severity Windows Task Host vulnerability that was flagged as actively exploited in April.<\/p>\n<p>Task Host is a core Windows system component that allows DLL-based processes to run in the background and prevents data corruption by ensuring they close properly during shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-60710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2025\u201360710<\/a>, this Windows privilege escalation security flaw was patched by Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-november-2025-patch-tuesday-fixes-1-zero-day-63-flaws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in November 2025<\/a> and stems from a <a href=\"https:\/\/cwe.mitre.org\/data\/definitions\/59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">link following<\/a> weakness that affects Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a high-severity Windows Task Host vulnerability that was flagged as actively exploited in April. Task Host is a core Windows system component that allows DLL-based processes to run in the background and prevents data corruption by ensuring they close [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}