India’s national cybersecurity agency has escalated an urgent warning about a wave of high‑severity Microsoft vulnerabilities that together pose significant risk to consumers, enterprises, and cloud customers — the advisory links Microsoft’s August security updates (including a publicly...
Microsoft's August security rollup is one of those months that makes system administrators stop what they're doing and triage: this Patch Tuesday delivered fixes for a broad sweep of vulnerabilities across Windows, Exchange, Azure and related services — including a publicly disclosed Kerberos...
A silent yet critical risk has emerged in enterprise Windows environments with the discovery of BadSuccessor, a powerful privilege escalation technique that takes advantage of Delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSAs) in Active Directory under Windows Server 2025. While the dMSA migration...
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In a significant development for enterprise security, Semperis has announced enhancements to its Directory Services Protector (DSP) platform, aimed at mitigating a critical vulnerability in Windows Server 2025's Active Directory. This vulnerability, dubbed "BadSuccessor," was identified by...
In a significant development for enterprise security, Semperis has unveiled new detection features within its Directory Services Protector (DSP) platform to combat a critical vulnerability in Windows Server 2025's Active Directory. This flaw, termed "BadSuccessor," enables attackers to escalate...
The rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats has reached a new inflection point with the recent disclosure of the “BadSuccessor” vulnerability, which affects Windows Server 2025 environments. This critical flaw, first identified by Akamai researchers, exploits a feature meant to...
Windows Server 2025, the much-anticipated evolution of Microsoft’s venerable server operating system, now finds itself at the center of an alarming security controversy. The emergence of a proof-of-concept (PoC) tool dubbed SharpSuccessor has illuminated the risks associated with a newly...
Windows Server 2025, still in preview but already being tested in production-like environments, was supposed to represent Microsoft's next step in enterprise-grade directory services. Yet, a critical vulnerability quietly lurking in its newest Active Directory feature has upended that promise...