Tag: office
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Conduent Says Hack Now Affects at Least 25 Million Patients
State Officials Investigating Breach of Back-Office Services Provider Found in 2025. The victim count in the 2024 hack on back-office support services vendor Conduent Business Services has just ballooned again, with the Xerox-spinoff now reporting to Wisconsin regulators that the incident affected 25 million-plus people nationwide. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/conduent-says-hack-now-affects-at-least-25-million-patients-a-30848
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Reddit fined $19.5 million for failing to protect children’s personal data
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit $19.5 million after finding that the company failed to use children’s personal information lawfully, exposing … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/25/uk-reddit-children-privacy-fine/
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Reddit, porn sites fined by UK regulators over children’s safety and privacy
Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office respectively fined a US porn company and Reddit for failing to protect children online. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/reddit-porn-sites-fined-by-uk-regulators-over-childrens-safety-and-privacy/
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UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million (over $19.5 million) for collecting and using the personal information of children under 13 without adequate safeguards. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-fines-reddit-19-million-for-using-childrens-data-unlawfully/
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Romanian Hacker Extradited to US Admits Hacking Oregon State Network
Catalin Dragomir admits to hacking an Oregon government office and selling network access. Read more on the $250k fraud case and his 2026 sentencing. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/romanian-hacker-extradited-us-hacking-oregon-state/
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International operation dismantles fraud network, Euro400,000 seized
A coordinated international operation supported by Eurojust dismantled a fraudulent call centre operating from three offices and targeting citizens throughout Europe. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/24/eurojust-international-action-fraudulent-call-centre-takedown/
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Modern Workplaces Demand a New Meaning for “Site” in Network Security
The Problem with the Traditional Idea of a Site For a long time, the concept of a “site” in networking and security was synonymous with a physical office. This included: a headquarters building a branch office a campus connected to the corporate network This traditional model was built on several assumptions: employees primarily worked from……
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Your Most Dangerous User Is Not Human: How AI Agents and MCP Servers Broke the Internal API Walled Garden
Highlights The Perimeter is Porous: Modern Agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) have effectively turned internal data centers inside out, making the “internal API” security model obsolete. The “Confused Deputy” Risk: Legitimate AI agents act as trusted internal entities but can be exploited to bypass Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, as seen in…
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Malvertising gegen Mac-Nutzer über Evernote-Links
Beliebte Software und Tools bleiben wirksame Lockvogel-Angebote im Dienste von Cyberkriminellen. Aktuell nutzen sie Google-Anzeigen für Mac-Nutzer mit Interesse an Anwendungen wie Microsoft-Office, Libre-Office, Notepad++, 7-Zip, VLC oder Final-Cut-Pro. Die Täter leiten ihre Opfer auf in Evernote geteilte Seiten mit bösartigen Links. Nach Klick auf die Links mit den vermeintlichen Angeboten führen die Opfer Kommandos…
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Malvertising gegen Mac-Nutzer über Evernote-Links
Beliebte Software und Tools bleiben wirksame Lockvogel-Angebote im Dienste von Cyberkriminellen. Aktuell nutzen sie Google-Anzeigen für Mac-Nutzer mit Interesse an Anwendungen wie Microsoft-Office, Libre-Office, Notepad++, 7-Zip, VLC oder Final-Cut-Pro. Die Täter leiten ihre Opfer auf in Evernote geteilte Seiten mit bösartigen Links. Nach Klick auf die Links mit den vermeintlichen Angeboten führen die Opfer Kommandos…
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How Modern Security Platforms Organize Rules
Every security platform eventually faces the same foundational question: How should security rules be organized? At first glance, this sounds like a simple data-modeling choice. In practice, it defines the daily reality of security operations: how quickly incidents can be debugged, how safely policies can evolve, how easily new offices or user communities can be……
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Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers’ confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-says-office-bug-exposed-customers-confidential-emails-to-copilot-ai/
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MCSC 2026: ‘Politik und Wirtschaft müssen zusammenarbeiten”
Tags: bsi, china, conference, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, north-korea, office, usaDas Motto der Munich Cybersecurity Conference 2026: “Command Control, Really? Confronting The Illusion Of Deterrence In The Age Of Relentless Cyber Threats.” Julia MutzbauerAuch in diesem Jahr waren wieder zahlreiche internationale Institutionen auf der Münchner Cybersicherheitskonferenz (MCSC) vertreten. Darunter das Weiße Haus, FBI, Europol, OECD, BSI, BND und die Europäische Kommission sowie das National Cybersecurity…
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CISO Julie Chatman offers insights for you to take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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CISO Julie Chatman offers insights for you to take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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CISO Julie Chatman wants to help you take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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Texas AG Investigating Conduent, BCBS Texas in Hack
Will the Back-Office Services’ Firm Incident Shatter US Data Breach Records?. The Texas attorney general office has launched an investigation into the Conduent Business Services hacking incident, which affected about 15.5 million Texans, including about 4 million Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas members. Will the nationwide victim tally shatter data breach records in the…
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MSP Strategic Defense: Where Prevention Meets Compliance
<div cla Imagine a modern office building. Not everyone who works there can go everywhere. Employees can access the building entrance, their own floor, and the meeting rooms they need, but they can’t (and shouldn’t be able to) walk into the server room, access executive offices, or wander freely across every floor. This may seem…
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MSP Strategic Defense: Where Prevention Meets Compliance
<div cla Imagine a modern office building. Not everyone who works there can go everywhere. Employees can access the building entrance, their own floor, and the meeting rooms they need, but they can’t (and shouldn’t be able to) walk into the server room, access executive offices, or wander freely across every floor. This may seem…
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Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 Zero-Days Under Attack
Microsoft patches 58 vulnerabilities, including six actively exploited zero-days across Windows, Office, and RDP, as CISA sets a March 3 deadline. The post Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 Zero-Days Under Attack appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-patch-tuesday-six-zero-days-february-2026/
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‘Dead’ Outlook add-in hijacked to phish 4,000 Microsoft Office Store users
Tags: banking, breach, browser, chrome, control, credentials, credit-card, data, finance, google, infrastructure, malicious, marketplace, microsoft, office, password, phishingoutlook-one.vercel.app, hosted on the Vercel development platform, from which users download the software.”Microsoft reviews the manifest, signs it, and lists the add-in in their store. But the actual content the UI, the logic, everything the user interacts with is fetched live from the developer’s server every time the add-in opens,” said Koi Security’s researchers. By…
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ORB Networks Leverages Compromised IoT Devices and SOHO Routers to Mask Cyberattacks
Operational Relay Box (ORB) networks are covert, mesh-based infrastructures used by advanced threat actors to hide the true origin of their cyberattacks. Built from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) routers, and rented Virtual Private Servers (VPS), these networks act like private residential proxy systems that blend malicious traffic with legitimate user activity.…
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Phishing campaign chains old Office flaw with fileless XWorm RAT to evade detection
Fileless .NET stage and a modular XWorm core: Beyond initial access, Fortinet observed a fileless .NET stage loaded directly into memory, followed by process hollowing into msbuild.exe, a legitimate Microsoft build tool capable of executing .NET code. The choice of msbuild.exe aligns with the malware’s runtime requirements while helping it blend into normal system activity.”A…
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Phishing campaign chains old Office flaw with fileless XWorm RAT to evade detection
Fileless .NET stage and a modular XWorm core: Beyond initial access, Fortinet observed a fileless .NET stage loaded directly into memory, followed by process hollowing into msbuild.exe, a legitimate Microsoft build tool capable of executing .NET code. The choice of msbuild.exe aligns with the malware’s runtime requirements while helping it blend into normal system activity.”A…
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Phishing campaign chains old Office flaw with fileless XWorm RAT to evade detection
Fileless .NET stage and a modular XWorm core: Beyond initial access, Fortinet observed a fileless .NET stage loaded directly into memory, followed by process hollowing into msbuild.exe, a legitimate Microsoft build tool capable of executing .NET code. The choice of msbuild.exe aligns with the malware’s runtime requirements while helping it blend into normal system activity.”A…
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Microsoft Outlook Add-In Stolen 4000 Accounts and Credit Card Numbers
Tags: breach, credentials, credit-card, cyber, data-breach, flaw, login, malicious, microsoft, officeA dormant Microsoft Outlook add-in has been weaponized by attackers to steal thousands of login credentials and credit card numbers. The incident, identified by security researchers as the first known malicious Office add-in found in the wild, exposed a critical flaw in how Microsoft distributes third-party tools. The >>Zombie<< App In 2022, a developer published…
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Microsoft Outlook Add-In Stolen 4000 Accounts and Credit Card Numbers
Tags: breach, credentials, credit-card, cyber, data-breach, flaw, login, malicious, microsoft, officeA dormant Microsoft Outlook add-in has been weaponized by attackers to steal thousands of login credentials and credit card numbers. The incident, identified by security researchers as the first known malicious Office add-in found in the wild, exposed a critical flaw in how Microsoft distributes third-party tools. The >>Zombie<< App In 2022, a developer published…
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Microsoft Outlook Add-In Stolen 4000 Accounts and Credit Card Numbers
Tags: breach, credentials, credit-card, cyber, data-breach, flaw, login, malicious, microsoft, officeA dormant Microsoft Outlook add-in has been weaponized by attackers to steal thousands of login credentials and credit card numbers. The incident, identified by security researchers as the first known malicious Office add-in found in the wild, exposed a critical flaw in how Microsoft distributes third-party tools. The >>Zombie<< App In 2022, a developer published…