Windows and Microsoft Office have been warned about a critical security risk by the Indian government earlier this month. The alert comes via the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In in July 2025 and it will be alarming for millions of PC users who rely on Windows, and other Microsoft products like Office, Azure used by businesses and more.

As you would assume, the new issues pose concerns for their systems and how hackers can manipulate them to extract data and other confidential content from the targeted PCs. 

Windows Security Issue: What The Alert Says 

The latest CERT-In alert comes with a high-severity rating and gives us more details about the security issues and how it can affect users. “Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Products, which could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges, obtain sensitive information, conduct remote code execution attacks, bypass security restrictions, conduct spoofing attacks, cause denial of service conditions or tamper with system settings," the note says. 

All of these modes of attacks can become dangerous for all users, both personal and business segments. Exploiting the issues could make it easy for hackers to bypass the device security, steal data and even initiate system crashes. 

Microsoft Security Issue: Who Is Affected? 

If you have a Windows PC, you’re at risk. If you use Office, Dynamics or even the Edge browser, there is risk and other enterprise tools like Azure are also in sight of the hackers. Microsoft has issued a detailed guide to fix these issues and the company has a wide array of updates ready to be installed by all these users. 

The company has pointed out that there are less chances of these issues being exploited yet, and hopefully the patch will protect all the users. We suggest you go to settings, enable auto-update Windows and reboot the system to have the new version installed to keep your PC safe.