Tag: microsoft
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7 Reasons Teams Add Email Security Beyond Microsoft 365 E5
<div cla Quick answer: why teams layer email security on top of Microsoft 365 E5 Microsoft 365 E5 is the ceiling of Microsoft native email security. It includes Defender for Office 365 Plan 2, which adds automated investigation, Threat Explorer, and Attack Simulation Training on top of the Plan 1 detection that now ships with…
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Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies
A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-claims-36-million-azure-account-records-stolen-from-major-companies/
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Azure Breach Campaign Claims McDonald’s, Vodafone as Victims
Darknet Forums List Employee and Service Records Allegedly Stolen From Major Firms. Forums selling stolen data are featuring advertisements for massive quantities of employee and service information exfiltrated from major organizations’ Microsoft Azure environments through their Entra ID portals. Listed victims include McDonald’s, Tata Consultancy Services, Vodafone and others. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5120249 extended security update
Microsoft has released Windows 10 KB5120249 Extended Security Updates for versions 22H2 and 21H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-kb5120249-cumulative-update-released-with-fixes/
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Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days
Today is Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a massive 400 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-august-2026-patch-tuesday-fixes-400-flaws-3-zero-days/
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Windows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released
Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5121003 and KB5120240 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs, and add new features. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5121003-and-kb5120240-cumulative-updates-released/
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Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE
Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent.The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), affects SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server 2016. Microsoft’s First…
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DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt
Tags: blockchain, communications, data, extortion, group, infrastructure, leak, microsoft, network, ransomware, service, threatThe ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience.”Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services that store and deliver resources used throughout the extortion process,” the Microsoft Threat First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks
CISA confirmed today that ransomware gangs have begun abusing a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, which has been flagged as actively exploited since early July. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-microsoft-sharepoint-flaw-now-exploited-in-ransomware-attacks/
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China-Linked Hackers Use N-able Flaw in Ransomware Attacks
Microsoft Says Storm-1175 Exploited CVE-2026-18577 After Its Disclosure. Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is exploiting N-able N-central authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 to gain administrative RMM access, pivot into managed endpoints and rapidly deploy its new StormEncryptor ransomware. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/china-linked-hackers-use-n-able-flaw-in-ransomware-attacks-a-32506
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Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11
Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine.The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hardware when supported Plug and Play or low-level USB…

