Tag: office
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U.S. sanctions Nobitex crypto exchange used by Iranian ransomware actors
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, for facilitating payments related to terrorist activities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-us-sanctions-nobitex-crypto-exchange-used-by-ransomware/
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Microsoft Tests Wearable AI Badge for Office Workers
Microsoft showed Project Solara concept devices at Build 2026, including a wearable AI badge for office workers using AI agents. The post Microsoft Tests Wearable AI Badge for Office Workers appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-wearable-ai-badge-office-workers/
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The U.S. sanctions Nobitex crypto exchange used by ransomware
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, for facilitating payments related to terrorist activities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-us-sanctions-nobitex-crypto-exchange-used-by-ransomware/
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The U.S. sanctions Nobitex crypto exchange used by ransomware
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, for facilitating payments related to terrorist activities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-us-sanctions-nobitex-crypto-exchange-used-by-ransomware/
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The U.S. sanctions Nobitex crypto exchange used by ransomware
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, for facilitating payments related to terrorist activities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-us-sanctions-nobitex-crypto-exchange-used-by-ransomware/
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Codex knowledge work expands into research, reports, and spreadsheets
Office workers in the United States lose hours each week to email triage and to searching for files spread across disconnected systems. Roughly 40 percent of US labor, about … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/02/openai-codex-knowledge-work/
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TP-Link Router Security Bug Enables Remote Command Execution Attacks
TP-Link has disclosed a high-severity security flaw in its Archer BE450 and Archer BE7200 Wi”‘Fi routers that could allow remote command execution once an attacker gains admin access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5509, is rated 8.5 (High) under CVSS v4.0, highlighting the serious risk it poses to both home and small-office networks that rely on…
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Microsoft investigates Office Apps, Teams file access issues
Microsoft says an ongoing incident is preventing users of its Teams collaboration platform and Office for the web cloud-based productivity suite from opening files. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-office-apps-teams-file-access-issues/
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Microsoft Patches SharePoint RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45659 Across Server Versions
Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions to be met.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. It has been assigned an important severity.”Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint…
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Home Office sitting on data about scale of eVisa errors
The Home Office holds data on the scale of errors and software issues with its electronic visa system, but is yet to release the information First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366643357/Home-Office-sitting-on-data-about-scale-of-eVisa-errors
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ICO Publishes Five-Step Plan to Counter Emerging AI-Powered Attacks
The Information Commissioner’s Office has released new guidance on how to mitigate the risk of AI-powered attacks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ico-steps-in-advice-handling-ai/
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UK fines water supplier $1.3M for exposing data of 664k customers
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined South Staffordshire Water Plc and parent company South Staffordshire Plc £963,900 ($1.3 million) over a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 663,887 customers and employees. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-fines-water-supplier-13m-for-exposing-data-of-664k-customers/
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FCC pushes ban on security updates for foreign-made routers, drones to 2029
The router deadline, originally slated for March 1, 2027, has been pushed back to at least January 1, 2029, according to the announcement from the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/fcc-pushes-ban-on-updates-to-foreign-routers-drones-2029
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Poor security left hackers inside water company network for nearly two years
The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), fined South Staffordshire Water’s parent company £963,900 over security failures linked to a … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/11/ico-south-staffordshire-cyberattack-fine/
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UK water company allowed hackers to lurk undetected for nearly two years, regulator finds
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined South Staffordshire Water £963,900 ($1.3 million) on Monday over an attack by the Cl0p ransomware group that led to the personal data of 633,887 customers and employees being published in August 2022. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-water-company-had-hackers-lurking-for-years
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Week in review: cPanel vulnerability actively exploited, DigiCert breach, LinkedIn job scams
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone Office work in … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/10/week-in-review-cpanel-vulnerability-actively-exploited-digicert-breach-linkedin-job-scams/
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Ten years later, has the GDPR fulfilled its purpose?
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, china, cio, compliance, data, data-breach, dora, finance, flaw, framework, GDPR, governance, government, international, jobs, law, mobile, office, privacy, regulation, risk, service, technology, tool, trainingFernando Maldonado, technology advisor at Foundry. MuleSoft. Gray areas remain: Still, if anything has been demonstrated in the decade since its entry into force, it’s that the GDPR still has a long way to go.Miguel Recio, president of APEP.IA (Spanish Professional Association for Privacy), argues that some of the limitations that have been exposed about the…
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Critical Weaver E-cology RCE Exploit Raises Alarm for Enterprise Systems
Tags: automation, cve, cvss, cyber, exploit, flaw, office, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Weaver (Fanwei) E-cology is being actively exploited in the wild, with real-world intrusion activity traced back to mid-March 2026, weeks before public awareness. Tracked as CVE-2026-22679 with a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw exposes enterprise office automation systems to full OS-level compromise without requiring any authentication. Vulnerability Overview CVE-2026-22679…
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Weaver E-cology RCE Flaw CVE-2026-22679 Actively Exploited via Debug API
A critical security vulnerability in Weaver (Fanwei) E-cology, an enterprise office automation (OA) and collaboration platform, has come under active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability (CVE-2026-22679, CVSS score: 9.8) relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution affecting Weaver E-cology 10.0 versions prior to 20260312. The issue resides in the “/papi/esearch/data/devops/ First seen on…
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Weaver E-cology critical bug exploited in attacks since March
Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-22679) in the Weaver E-cology office automation since mid-March to run discovery commands. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/weaver-e-cology-critical-bug-exploited-in-attacks-since-march/
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Frost Bank Hit With Class-Action Lawsuits Over Data Breach Affecting More Than 100,000 Customers
What happened Frost Bank, San Antonio’s largest bank, is facing two proposed class-action lawsuits following a cyberattack attributed to the Everest ransomware group that allegedly exposed the sensitive personal data of an estimated 109,000 customers. The bank has not publicly confirmed the scope of the breach or reported it to the Texas Attorney General’s Office,…The…
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, captcha, cio, ciso, compliance, computer, control, credentials, crowdstrike, data, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, fraud, gartner, iam, identity, jobs, linkedin, mitigation, monitoring, network, north-korea, office, phone, risk, skills, tool, training, zero-trustWhat to do if you suspect a fake IT worker: When a CIO suspects a fake IT worker, next steps are important as the issue shifts from recruitment to insider risk management.During his time at MongoDB, George Gerchow, IANS faculty advisor and Bedrock Data CSO, oversaw the investigation after the company detected it had unknowingly…
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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone
Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/04/workplace-apps-data-collection-privacy/
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Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid’s been placed
Tags: officeStart date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK’s now handing out eight million passports a year First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/passport_to_home_office_adds/
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UK data watchdog accused of dragging feet on eVisa investigation
Despite longstanding data protection issues with the Home Office’s electronic visa system being flagged five months ago, the UK’s data regulator is yet to take any action First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642365/UK-data-watchdog-accused-of-dragging-feet-on-eVisa-investigation
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Chinese spy posed as researcher in spear-phishing campaign targeting NASA to steal defense software
A Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher, tricking NASA staff in a phishing campaign to steal sensitive data tied to defense software and exports. A Chinese national ran a spear-phishing campaign by posing as a U.S. researcher and tricked NASA employees into sharing sensitive information. The NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) and federal…
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TDL 020 – Why DNS Is Your First Line of Cyber Defense – Chris Buijs
Tags: access, attack, automation, business, cisco, ciso, cloud, container, corporate, country, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, dns, encryption, endpoint, finance, firewall, group, hacker, ibm, infrastructure, Internet, iot, jobs, malicious, microsoft, network, office, phone, programming, router, saas, service, software, startup, strategy, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vulnerability, zero-trustIn Episode 20 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Amsterdam-based tech veteran Chris Buijs to discuss the often-overlooked backbone of internet security: DNS (Domain Name System). The “Set-it-and-Forget-it” Trap Buijs, who transitioned from an electrician to a network architect, notes that many organizations treat DNS as a “utility” rather than a…