Tag: microsoft
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Meet the new Clippy: Microsoft unveils Copilot’s “Mico” avatar
Today, Microsoft introduced Mico, a new and more personal avatar for the AI-powered Copilot digital assistant, which the company describes as human-centered. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/meet-the-new-clippy-microsoft-unveils-copilots-mico-avatar/
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Microsoft disables File Explorer preview for downloads to block attacks
Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-disables-preview-pane-for-downloads-to-block-ntlm-theft-attacks/
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Microsoft stoppt Ransomware-Angriffe auf Teams-Nutzer
Eine Ransomware-Bande hat gefälschte MS Teams-Installationsprogramme verwendet, um Nutzer anzugreifen.Durch die zunehmende Verbreitung von Remote-Work geraten Collaboration-Tools immer wieder in das Visier von Cyberkriminellen. Microsoft entdeckte vor kurzem eine Angriffskampagne der Ransomware-Bande Vanilla Tempest, die auf gefälschten Teams-Installationsprogrammen basiert. Die Angreifer verwendeten dazu imitierte MSTeamsSetup.exe-Dateien, die auf bösartigen Domains gehostet wurden. Ziel war es, ahnungslose…
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Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025: Extortion and Ransomware Lead Global Cybercrime Surge
The newly released Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 reveals new data on global cyber threats. According to the report, more than half of all cyberattacks with known motives, 52%, are driven by extortion and ransomware. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/digital-defense-report-shares-cybercrime-trend/
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Warlock Ransomware Exploits SharePoint ToolShell Zero-Day in New Attack Campaign
Tags: attack, china, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, espionage, exploit, group, infrastructure, microsoft, ransomware, threat, zero-dayChinese-linked threat actors behind the Warlock ransomware operation have emerged as a significant cybersecurity concern following their exploitation of a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability. The group’s sophisticated attack infrastructure, combined with evidence of historical espionage activities dating back to 2019, reveals a complex threat landscape where cybercriminal and state-sponsored operations increasingly converge. Warlock first surfaced…
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Vorschau funktioniert nicht: Update für Windows-11-Explorer verärgert Nutzer
Der Explorer von Windows 11 verweigert seit einigen Tagen die Vorschau für zahlreiche PDF- und Office-Dokumente. Laut Microsoft ist das beabsichtigt. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/nutzerbeschwerden-windows-11-update-macht-vorschau-im-explorer-kaputt-2510-201447.html
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Nutzer verärgert: Windows-11-Update macht Vorschau im Explorer kaputt
Der Explorer von Windows 11 verweigert seit einigen Tagen die Vorschau für zahlreiche PDF- und Office-Dokumente. Laut Microsoft ist das beabsichtigt. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/nutzerbeschwerden-windows-11-update-macht-vorschau-im-explorer-kaputt-2510-201447.html
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Microsoft’s ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11
Pixels of the past ‘created just for fun’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/windows_pifmgr_chen/
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Click, Call, Compromise: Hackers Continue to Evolve Tactics
Microsoft Says Hackers Pivoting to Identity Compromise. Hackers are as likely to log in as break in, warns Microsoft in an annual assessment of cyberthreats. During the first half of 2025, identity-based attacks rose by 32% due to credentials stolen by infostealers or password and email combinations plucked from bulk data breaches. First seen on…
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ToolShell bug used by Chinese attackers against governments in Africa, South America
Government agencies in African and South American nations are on the long list of organizations breached through exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, incident responders revealed. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/sharepoint-toolshell-bug-breaches-governments-africa-south-america
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Is for Security Leaders, Too
Think you know all there is to know about cybersecurity? Guess again. Shadow AI is challenging security leaders with many of the same issues raised by other “shadow” technologies. Only this time, it’s evolving at breakneck speed. Key takeaways: The vast majority of organizations (89%) are either using AI or piloting it. Shadow AI lurks…
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Versa schafft umfassende SASE-Lösung mit der Integration von Microsoft-EntraAccess
Ab sofort steht eine automatisierte Integration von Versa-Secure-SD-WAN mit Microsoft-Entra-Internet-Access, einer Komponente der Security-Service-Edge (SSE)-Lösung von Microsoft, zur Verfügung. Damit entsteht eine vollständige, einfach zu verwaltende SASE-Lösung, die umfassende Sicherheit mit optimierter Leistung für verteilte Standorte bietet. Im Gegensatz zu vielen vorlagenbasierten Integrationen ist das anwendungsorientierte SD-WAN von Versa nun eines der wenigen SD-WAN-Angebote im…
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Microsoft OneDrive und die KI-Gesichtserkennung in Familienfotos
Ich krame noch ein weiteres Thema raus, was eigentlich zeigt, dass sie die Verwendung von Microsoft OneDrive zur Speicherung persönlicher Inhalte verbietet. Denn Microsoft testet mit Familienfotos, die auf OneDrive liegen, die KI-gestützte Gesichtserkennung. KI Gesichtserkennung bei OneDrive Das Thema … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/10/22/microsoft-onedrive-und-die-ki-gesichtserkennung-in-familienfotos/
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Fileless Remcos Attacks: Injecting Malicious Code into RMClient to Evade EDR
CyberProof researchers detected a significant surge in Remcos (Remote Control & Surveillance Software) campaigns throughout September and October 2025, exploiting sophisticated fileless techniques to evade endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. By leveraging highly obfuscated PowerShell scripts and process hollowing into Microsoft’s RMClient.exe, attackers are gaining stealthy persistence and targeting browser credentials. Although Remcos is…
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Threat Actors Exploiting Azure Blob Storage to Breach Organizational Repositories
Threat actors are increasingly targeting Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft’s flagship object storage solution, to infiltrate organizational repositories and disrupt critical workloads. With its capacity to handle exabytes of unstructured data for AI, high performance computing, analytics, media streaming, enterprise backup, and IoT ingestion, Blob Storage has become an attractive vector for sophisticated campaigns aiming to…
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Chinese Threat Actors Exploit ToolShell SharePoint Flaw Weeks After Microsoft’s July Patch
Tags: breach, china, country, exploit, flaw, government, microsoft, middle-east, technology, threat, update, usa, vulnerabilityThreat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and patched in July 2025.Also targeted were government departments in an African country, as well as government agencies in South America, a university in the U.S., as…
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Hackers Exploit Microsoft 365 Direct Send to Evade Filters and Steal Data
Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting a legitimate Microsoft 365 feature designed for enterprise convenience, turning Exchange Online’s Direct Send into a dangerous vector for phishing campaigns and business email compromise attacks. Security researchers across the industry are sounding the alarm as malicious actors leverage this trusted pathway to bypass authentication checks and deliver convincing internal-looking messages…
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Sharepoint ToolShell attacks targeted orgs across four continents
Hackers believed to be associated with China have leveraged the ToolShell vulnerability (CVE-2025-53770) in Microsoft SharePoint in attacks targeting government agencies, universities, telecommunication service providers, and finance organizations. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sharepoint-toolshell-attacks-targeted-orgs-across-four-continents/
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Sharepoint ToolShell attacks targeted orgs across four continents
Hackers believed to be associated with China have leveraged the ToolShell vulnerability (CVE-2025-53770) in Microsoft SharePoint in attacks targeting government agencies, universities, telecommunication service providers, and finance organizations. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sharepoint-toolshell-attacks-targeted-orgs-across-four-continents/
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Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287) Notice
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released a security update that fixed the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287); Because WSUS’s GetCookie does not perform type verification when processing objects, an unauthenticated attacker can achieve remote code execution by deserializing malicious data to control the target server. The CVSS score…The…
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Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287) Notice
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released a security update that fixed the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287); Because WSUS’s GetCookie does not perform type verification when processing objects, an unauthenticated attacker can achieve remote code execution by deserializing malicious data to control the target server. The CVSS score…The…
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CAASM and EASM: Top 12 attack surface discovery and management tools
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, blockchain, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, detection, dns, endpoint, exploit, framework, guide, hacking, HIPAA, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, marketplace, microsoft, monitoring, network, open-source, PCI, risk, risk-assessment, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCAASM and EASM tools for attack surface discovery and management: Periodic scans of the network are no longer sufficient for maintaining a hardened attack surface. Continuous monitoring for new assets and configuration drift are critical to ensure the security of corporate resources and customer data.New assets need to be identified and incorporated into the monitoring…
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Ransomware Attacks Escalate in APAC Targeting VPN Flaws, Microsoft 365 Logins, Python Scripts
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is seeing a rapid surge in number of cyberattacks aimed at its enterprises’, a new report suggests. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/ransomware-targets-apac-region/
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Nach Update: Nervige Anmeldeprobleme unter Windows 11
Auch Windows Server 2025 ist betroffen. Ein Patch ist nicht zu erwarten. Microsoft sieht Admins in der Pflicht, ihre Systeme richtig zu klonen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/nach-update-nervige-anmeldeprobleme-unter-windows-11-2510-201407.html
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Microsoft behebt Sicherheitslücke mit höchstem Gefahren-Score aller Zeiten
First seen on t3n.de Jump to article: t3n.de/news/microsoft-behebt-sicherheitsluecke-mit-hoechstem-gefahren-score-aller-zeiten-1713086/
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AWS Outage: Lessons Learned
What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media), affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not…
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AWS Outage: Lessons Learned
What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media), affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not…
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The Many Shapes of Identity: Inside IAM 360, Issue 3
Tags: access, ai, business, cloud, communications, compliance, container, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, encryption, guide, iam, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, microsoft, passkey, password, risk, software, strategy, technology, threatThe Many Shapes of Identity: Inside IAM 360, Issue 3 josh.pearson@t“¦ Tue, 10/21/2025 – 17:27 The new issue of IAM 360 is here! In this issue, we take on a theme that shows how identity never stands still, reshaping how we live and work as it evolves. We call it Form Factor. Why Form Factor?…
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CISA Flags Highly Exploitable Windows SMB Flaw
Tags: attack, cisa, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, microsoft, mitigation, network, ntlm, windowsNTLM Reflection Attack Strikes Again. A three-month old flaw in a network protocol for file sharing used by Microsoft is under active exploitation, warns the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The flaw’s exploitation bypasses mitigations Microsoft has built over the years to prevent NTLM reflection attacks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/cisa-flags-highly-exploitable-windows-smb-flaw-a-29778
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Recent Windows updates cause login issues on some PCs
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows updates released since August 29, 2025, are breaking authentication on systems sharing Security Identifiers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-recent-windows-updates-cause-login-issues-on-pcs-sharing-security-ids/