Tag: microsoft
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NANOREMOTE Malware Uses Google Drive API for Hidden Control on Windows Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new fully-featured Windows backdoor called NANOREMOTE that uses the Google Drive API for command-and-control (C2) purposes.According to a report from Elastic Security Labs, the malware shares code similarities with another implant codenamed FINALDRAFT (aka Squidoor) that employs Microsoft Graph API for C2. FINALDRAFT is attributed to a First…
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Microsoft Copilot Studio Security Risk: How Simple Prompt Injection Leaked Credit Cards and Booked a $0 Trip
The no-code power of Microsoft Copilot Studio introduces a new attack surface. Tenable AI Research demonstrates how a simple prompt injection attack of an AI agent bypasses security controls, leading to data leakage and financial fraud. We provide five best practices to secure your AI agents. Key takeaways: The no-code interface available in Microsoft Copilot…
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Microsoft Copilot Studio Security Risk: How Simple Prompt Injection Leaked Credit Cards and Booked a $0 Trip
The no-code power of Microsoft Copilot Studio introduces a new attack surface. Tenable AI Research demonstrates how a simple prompt injection attack of an AI agent bypasses security controls, leading to data leakage and financial fraud. We provide five best practices to secure your AI agents. Key takeaways: The no-code interface available in Microsoft Copilot…
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Microsoft expands Bug Bounty scheme to include third-party software
The company is to offer bug bounty awards for people who report security vulnerabilities in third-party and open source software impacting Microsoft services First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636178/Microsoft-expands-Bug-Bounty-scheme-to-include-third-party-software
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Microsoft’s December Security Update of High-Risk Vulnerability Notice for Multiple Products
Overview On December 10, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the December Security Update patch, which fixed 57 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Azure, etc., including high-risk vulnerability types such as privilege escalation and remote code execution. Among the vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft’s monthly update this…The…
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Microsoft’s December Security Update of High-Risk Vulnerability Notice for Multiple Products
Overview On December 10, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the December Security Update patch, which fixed 57 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Azure, etc., including high-risk vulnerability types such as privilege escalation and remote code execution. Among the vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft’s monthly update this…The…
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Microsoft fixes Windows Explorer white flashes in dark mode
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused bright white flashes when launching File Explorer in dark mode on Windows 11 systems after installing the KB5070311 optional update. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-windows-explorer-white-flashes-in-dark-mode/
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Copilot’s No-Code AI Agents Liable to Leak Company Data
Microsoft puts the power of AI in the hands of everyday non-technical Joes. It’s a nice idea, and a surefire recipe for security issues. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/copilot-no-code-ai-agents-leak-company-data
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Copilot’s No-Code AI Agents Liable to Leak Company Data
Microsoft puts the power of AI in the hands of everyday non-technical Joes. It’s a nice idea, and a surefire recipe for security issues. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/copilot-no-code-ai-agents-leak-company-data
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Copilot’s No-Code AI Agents Liable to Leak Company Data
Microsoft puts the power of AI in the hands of everyday non-technical Joes. It’s a nice idea, and a surefire recipe for security issues. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/copilot-no-code-ai-agents-leak-company-data
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Smashing Security podcast #447: Grok the stalker, the Louvre heist, and Microsoft 365 mayhem
On this week’s show we learn that AI really can be a stalker’s best friend, as we explore a strange tale that starts with a manatee-shaped mailbox on a millionaire’s lawn and ends with Grok happily doxxing real people, mapping out stalking “strategies,” and handing out revenge-porn tips. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article:…
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Smashing Security podcast #447: Grok the stalker, the Louvre heist, and Microsoft 365 mayhem
On this week’s show we learn that AI really can be a stalker’s best friend, as we explore a strange tale that starts with a manatee-shaped mailbox on a millionaire’s lawn and ends with Grok happily doxxing real people, mapping out stalking “strategies,” and handing out revenge-porn tips. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article:…
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Smashing Security podcast #447: Grok the stalker, the Louvre heist, and Microsoft 365 mayhem
On this week’s show we learn that AI really can be a stalker’s best friend, as we explore a strange tale that starts with a manatee-shaped mailbox on a millionaire’s lawn and ends with Grok happily doxxing real people, mapping out stalking “strategies,” and handing out revenge-porn tips. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article:…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2025 Year in Review
Tags: apt, attack, backdoor, cve, cyber, cybercrime, dos, exploit, flaw, malware, microsoft, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, service, software, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMicrosoft addressed over 1,100 CVEs as part of Patch Tuesday releases in 2025, including 40 zero-day vulnerabilities. Key takeaways: Microsoft’s 2025 Patch Tuesday releases addressed 1,130 CVEs. This is the second year in a row where the CVE count was over 1,000. Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 38.3% of all Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities in…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2025 Year in Review
Tags: apt, attack, backdoor, cve, cyber, cybercrime, dos, exploit, flaw, malware, microsoft, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, service, software, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMicrosoft addressed over 1,100 CVEs as part of Patch Tuesday releases in 2025, including 40 zero-day vulnerabilities. Key takeaways: Microsoft’s 2025 Patch Tuesday releases addressed 1,130 CVEs. This is the second year in a row where the CVE count was over 1,000. Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 38.3% of all Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities in…
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Hidden .NET HTTP proxy behavior can open RCE flaws in apps, a security issue Microsoft won’t fix
Tags: api, control, credentials, cve, endpoint, exploit, flaw, framework, ivanti, leak, microsoft, monitoring, ntlm, powershell, programming, rce, remote-code-execution, service, vulnerabilityServiceDescriptionImporter class,” he said. “That mechanism alone enabled successful exploitation in products from Barracuda, Ivanti, Microsoft and Umbraco, and it took only a few days of review to find working cases.” The .NET Framework and ASP.NET are among the most popular programming languages for enterprise applications. When a developer wants their application to communicate with…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2025 Year in Review
Tags: apt, attack, backdoor, cve, cyber, cybercrime, dos, exploit, flaw, malware, microsoft, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, service, software, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMicrosoft addressed over 1,100 CVEs as part of Patch Tuesday releases in 2025, including 40 zero-day vulnerabilities. Key takeaways: Microsoft’s 2025 Patch Tuesday releases addressed 1,130 CVEs. This is the second year in a row where the CVE count was over 1,000. Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 38.3% of all Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities in…
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Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (9. Dezember 2025)
Am 9. Dezember (zweiter Dienstag im Monat, Microsoft Patchday) hat Microsoft mehrere sicherheitsrelevante Updates für Microsoft Office veröffentlicht. Diesen Monat wurden gravierende Schwachstellen in Office geschlossen. Nachfolgend finden Sie eine Übersicht über die verfügbaren Updates. Eine Übersicht über die Updates … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/12/11/patchday-microsoft-office-updates-9-dezember-2025/
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Microsoft Teams to warn of suspicious traffic with external domains
Tags: microsoftMicrosoft is working on a new Teams security feature that will analyze suspicious traffic with external domains to help IT administrators tackle potential security threats. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-teams-to-warn-of-suspicious-traffic-with-external-domains/
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Microsoft Releases New Guidance to Combat the Shai-Hulud 2.0 Supply Chain Threat
Tags: attack, cloud, credentials, cyber, exploit, microsoft, programming, software, supply-chain, threatMicrosoft has published comprehensive guidance addressing the Shai-Hulud 2.0 supply chain attack, one of the most significant cloud-native ecosystem compromises observed in recent months. The campaign represents a sophisticated threat that exploits the trust inherent in modern software development workflows by targeting developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-connected workloads to harvest sensitive credentials and configuration…
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Windows Defender Firewall Flaw Allows Attackers to Access Sensitive Data
Microsoft has officially addressed a new security vulnerability affecting the Windows Defender Firewall Service that could allow threat actors to access sensitive information on compromised systems. The flaw, identified as CVE-2025-62468, was disclosed as part of the company’s December 2025 security updates. This information disclosure vulnerability poses a risk to organizations that rely on standard…
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Windows Defender Firewall Flaw Allows Attackers to Access Sensitive Data
Microsoft has officially addressed a new security vulnerability affecting the Windows Defender Firewall Service that could allow threat actors to access sensitive information on compromised systems. The flaw, identified as CVE-2025-62468, was disclosed as part of the company’s December 2025 security updates. This information disclosure vulnerability poses a risk to organizations that rely on standard…
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Microsoft Outlook Flaw Lets Attackers Execute Malicious Code Remotely
Microsoft has disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Outlook that could allow attackers to execute malicious code on affected systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62562, was officially released on December 9, 2025, and poses a significant security risk to enterprise and personal users worldwide. The flaw stems from a use-after-free weakness in Outlook’s…
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Microsoft Outlook Flaw Lets Attackers Execute Malicious Code Remotely
Microsoft has disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Outlook that could allow attackers to execute malicious code on affected systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62562, was officially released on December 9, 2025, and poses a significant security risk to enterprise and personal users worldwide. The flaw stems from a use-after-free weakness in Outlook’s…
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Exchange Server Sicherheitsupdates Dezember 2025
Microsoft hat zum 9. Dezember 2025 das “Dezember 2025” Sicherheitsupdate für Exchange Server freigegeben. Das Sicherheitsupdate gilt Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, und erstmals für Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE). Exchange Online-Kunden sind bereits geschützt, die tangiert das Update … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/12/10/exchange-server-sicherheitsupdates-dezember-2025/
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for December 2025 fixed an actively exploited zero-day
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for December 2025 address 57 vulnerabilities, including three critical flaws. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for December 2025 addressed 57 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows components, Office and Office Components, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Exchange Server, Azure, Copilot, PowerShell, and Windows Defender. Three vulnerabilities are rated Critical, while the rest are…
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Microsoft Issues Security Fixes for 56 Flaws, Including Active Exploit and Two Zero-Days
Microsoft closed out 2025 with patches for 56 security flaws in various products across the Windows platform, including one vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild.Of the 56 flaws, three are rated Critical, and 53 are rated Important in severity. Two other defects are listed as publicly known at the time of the…
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Microsoft Fixes Three Zero-Days in Final Patch Tuesday of 2025
December’s Patch Tuesday sees the release of patches for over 50 CVEs including three zero-days First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-three-zerodays-patch/
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Microsoft Issues Security Fixes for 56 Flaws, Including Active Exploit and Two Zero-Days
Microsoft closed out 2025 with patches for 56 security flaws in various products across the Windows platform, including one vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild.Of the 56 flaws, three are rated Critical, and 53 are rated Important in severity. Two other defects are listed as publicly known at the time of the…
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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows and WinRAR flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsU.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows and WinRAR flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Microsoft Windows and WinRAR flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2025-6218 is a WinRAR directory traversal flaw (formerly…