Tag: microsoft
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Users fume over Outlook.com email ‘carnage’
Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlookcom_email/
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MY TAKE: ChatGPT is turning into Microsoft Office, and power users are paying the price
Something has been shifting inside the tools millions of us use every day, and it’s worth naming out loud. Related: AI is becoming a daily routine Over the past several months I’ve watched ChatGPT change. Not in some abstract, version-number… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/my-take-chatgpt-is-turning-into-microsoft-office-and-power-users-are-paying-the-price/
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MY TAKE: ChatGPT is turning into Microsoft Office, and power users are paying the price
Something has been shifting inside the tools millions of us use every day, and it’s worth naming out loud. Related: AI is becoming a daily routine Over the past several months I’ve watched ChatGPT change. Not in some abstract, version-number… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/my-take-chatgpt-is-turning-into-microsoft-office-and-power-users-are-paying-the-price/
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Securing Microsoft 365: A Live Breakdown of Modern Attack Paths
An OnDemand Webinar with former NSA operative Kyle Hanslovan. Watch how hackers steal credentials, bypass Microsoft 365 MFA, and completely wreck enterprise systems in under 10 minutes. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/securing-microsoft-365-live-breakdown-modern-attack-paths-a-30901
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Securing Microsoft 365: A Live Breakdown of Modern Attack Paths
An OnDemand Webinar with former NSA operative Kyle Hanslovan. Watch how hackers steal credentials, bypass Microsoft 365 MFA, and completely wreck enterprise systems in under 10 minutes. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/securing-microsoft-365-live-breakdown-modern-attack-paths-a-30901
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Securing Microsoft 365: A Live Breakdown of Modern Attack Paths
An OnDemand Webinar with former NSA operative Kyle Hanslovan. Watch how hackers steal credentials, bypass Microsoft 365 MFA, and completely wreck enterprise systems in under 10 minutes. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/securing-microsoft-365-live-breakdown-modern-attack-paths-a-30901
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Attackers abuse OAuth’s built-in redirects to launch phishing and malware attacks
Researchers have found that attackers are abusing OAuth to send users from legitimate Microsoft or Google login pages to phishing sites or malware downloads. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/attackers-abuse-oauths-built-in-redirects-to-launch-phishing-and-malware-attacks/
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U.S. CISA adds Qualcomm and Broadcom VMware Aria Operations flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Tags: cisa, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, google, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, ransomware, vmware, vulnerability, windowsU.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Qualcomm and Broadcom VMware Aria Operations flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Chromium CSS, Microsoft Windows, TeamT5 ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware, and Zimbra flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: In…
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AzCopy Utility Misused for Data Exfiltration in Ongoing Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware operators are increasingly abusing Microsoft’s trusted Azure data transfer utility, AzCopy, to quietly exfiltrate sensitive data before encryption, turning a routine cloud migration tool into a stealthy theft channel. Instead of relying on obviously malicious tools like Rclone or MegaSync, threat actors are pivoting to native, administrator-approved cloud utilities to blend into normal IT…
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Microsoft Alerts Customers to New Phishing Attack Exploiting OAuth in Entra ID to Bypass Detection
Tags: attack, authentication, credentials, cyber, detection, exploit, google, government, microsoft, phishing, software, threat, vulnerabilityMicrosoft recently uncovered sophisticated phishing campaigns that exploit the by-design redirection mechanisms of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. Threat actors are targeting government and public-sector organizations by manipulating legitimate authentication flows in Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace. Rather than exploiting traditional software vulnerabilities or stealing credentials directly, this campaign abuses trusted protocol behavior to bypass…
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Microsoft’s February Security Update of High-Risk Vulnerability Notice for Multiple Products
Tags: cyber, microsoft, network, office, remote-code-execution, risk, update, vulnerability, windowsOverview On February 11, 2026, NSFOCUS CERT monitored Microsoft’s release of its February security update patches, addressing 59 security issues across widely used products such as Windows, Azure, Microsoft Office, and Visual Studio Code. These vulnerabilities include privilege escalation, remote code execution, and other high-risk vulnerabilities. In this monthly update, 5 vulnerabilities are rated as…The…
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The DocuSign Email That Wasn’t A Three-Redirect Credential Harvest
<div cla TL;DR Attackers sent a convincing DocuSign notification with a “Review & Sign” button that chained through Google Maps redirects to an Amazon S3-hosted credential harvesting page. The redirect chain defeated URL scanners, and real law-firm footers added legitimacy. IRONSCALES Adaptive AI flagged the behavioral mismatch between sender infrastructure and brand identity before the first…
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The DocuSign Email That Wasn’t A Three-Redirect Credential Harvest
<div cla TL;DR Attackers sent a convincing DocuSign notification with a “Review & Sign” button that chained through Google Maps redirects to an Amazon S3-hosted credential harvesting page. The redirect chain defeated URL scanners, and real law-firm footers added legitimacy. IRONSCALES Adaptive AI flagged the behavioral mismatch between sender infrastructure and brand identity before the first…
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Hackers abuse OAuth error flows to spread malware
Hackers are abusing the legitimate OAuth redirection mechanism to bypass phishing protections in email and browsers to take users to malicious pages. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-hackers-abuse-oauth-error-flows-to-spread-malware/
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$5M Microsoft Activation Key Fraud Ends in Prison Term
A Florida woman was sentenced for reselling improperly distributed Microsoft activation keys, underscoring gray-market software risks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/5m-microsoft-activation-key-fraud-ends-in-prison-term/
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NDSS 2025 Be Careful Of What You Embed: Demystifying OLE Vulnerabilities
Tags: conference, cve, data, detection, exploit, Internet, malicious, microsoft, network, office, remote-code-execution, risk, tool, vulnerability, windowsSession 14C: Vulnerability Detection Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yunpeng Tian (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Feng Dong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Haoyi Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Meng Xu (University of Waterloo), Zhiniang Peng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Sangfor Technologies Inc.), Zesen Ye (Sangfor Technologies Inc.), Shenghui Li…
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Threat actors weaponize OAuth redirection logic to deliver malware
An ongoing phishing campaign is abusing the OAuth authentication redirection mechanism to avoid triggering conventional email and browser defenses, Microsoft researchers have … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/03/attackers-abusing-oauth-redirection-phishing-malware/
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Threat actors weaponize OAuth redirection logic to deliver malware
An ongoing phishing campaign is abusing the OAuth authentication redirection mechanism to avoid triggering conventional email and browser defenses, Microsoft researchers have … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/03/attackers-abusing-oauth-redirection-phishing-malware/
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Florida woman gets 2 year sentence for trafficking Microsoft software labels
According to court documents, the defendant purchased millions of dollars of labels but did not sell them with the corresponding software. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/florida-woman-sentenced-reselling-microsoft-labels
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OAuth phishers make ‘check where the link points’ advice ineffective
Tags: authentication, automation, awareness, business, cloud, control, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, governance, identity, login, malicious, microsoft, monitoring, phishing, saas, threat, toolContext, not the URL, is the new red flag: Sakshi Grover, Senior Research Manager at IDC Asia/Pacific, said the longstanding advice to hover over a link and verify its domain was built for an era of lookalike domains and that it no longer holds in environments where authentication flows routinely pass through trusted identity providers.”Organizations…
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Phishing campaign exploits OAuth redirection to bypass defenses
Microsoft researchers warn that threat actors abuse OAuth redirects to target government users and deliver malware. Microsoft has warned of phishing campaigns targeting government and public-sector organizations by abusing OAuth URL redirection. Instead of stealing credentials or exploiting software flaws, attackers leverage OAuth’s legitimate by-design behavior to bypass email and browser defenses. The tactic redirects…
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New Defender deployment tool streamlines Windows device onboarding with single executable
Microsoft’s Defender deployment tool for Windows helps administrators manage device onboarding at scale with updated progress visibility and additional controls. Simplified … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/03/microsoft-defender-deployment-tool-for-windows-update/
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Microsoft Warns OAuth Redirect Abuse Delivers Malware to Government Targets
Microsoft on Monday warned of phishing campaigns that employ phishing emails and OAuth URL redirection mechanisms to bypass conventional phishing defenses implemented in email and browsers.The activity, the company said, targets government and public-sector organizations with the end goal of redirecting victims to attacker-controlled infrastructure without stealing their tokens. It described First seen on thehackernews.com…
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KI-Anwendungsfälle mit Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft AI Tour: Souveränität as a Service und Use Cases
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/microsoft-ai-tour-souveraenitaet-as-a-4603d005e59798ec95a6dd881cedca59/
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Hackerbot-Claw Bot Exploits GitHub Actions CI/CD Flaw to Attack Microsoft and DataDog
Tags: ai, attack, automation, cyber, exploit, flaw, github, microsoft, open-source, remote-code-executionHackerbot-claw, an autonomous AI bot, has launched a week-long campaign abusing GitHub Actions misconfigurations to hit CI/CD pipelines at Microsoft, DataDog, and other major open-source projects, achieving remote code execution (RCE) and even full repo compromise in some cases. The attacks highlight how unsafe pull_request_target workflows and shell interpolation bugs can turn routine automation into…
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Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery
Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokens First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/microsoft_oauth_scams/
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Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery
Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokens First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/microsoft_oauth_scams/
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When Trusted Authentication Enables Privilege Escalation
Active Directory remains the backbone of enterprise identity. Despite years of modernization efforts, many organizations still rely on legacy authentication protocols that were never designed for today’s threat landscape. New reporting from Dark Reading highlights how attackers continue to abuse NTLM and Kerberos within Microsoft Active Directory environments to escalate privileges, move laterally, and maintain…
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Florida woman imprisoned for massive Microsoft license fraud scheme
A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in prison for running a massive years-long scheme to traffic thousands of stolen Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/florida-woman-imprisoned-for-massive-microsoft-license-fraud-scheme/
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Russia-linked APT28 exploited MSHTML zero-day CVE-2026-21513 before patch
Russia-linked APT28 reportedly exploited MSHTML zero-day CVE-2026-21513 before Microsoft patched it, a high-severity bypass flaw. Akamai reports that Russia-linked APT28 may have exploited CVE-2026-21513 CVSS score of 8.8), a high-severity MSHTML vulnerability (CVSS 8.8), before Microsoft patched it in February 2026. The vulnerability is an Internet Explorer security control bypass that can lead to code…