In a case that has electrified both federal cybersecurity circles and the wider tech community, a detailed whistleblower disclosure alleges the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the controversial leadership of Elon Musk, was complicit in a significant data breach at the National...
As new revelations surface about cloud security, the ubiquitous presence of SaaS solutions in enterprise environments is coming under renewed scrutiny. The recent warning issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) about potential broader attacks exploiting...
Few threats in today’s digital landscape have demonstrated such rapid, widespread, and evolving danger as the Lumma information-stealing malware currently impacting hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs. In just two months, Microsoft’s security researchers detected Lumma—also known as LummaC2—on...
Hackers are once again proving that even the latest technological marvels can become Trojan horses for cybercriminals. Recent reports reveal that threat actors are exploiting Microsoft Copilot—a generative AI assistant designed to help users with everything from transcribing emails to drafting...
A new and highly sophisticated threat has been making waves in the cybersecurity community: the ModiLoader malware, also known as DBatLoader. This potent strain is targeting Windows users with laser-focused efficiency, employing clever evasion techniques and multi-stage infection processes that...
Phishing attacks have long been the scourge of enterprise security, but recent developments reveal a disturbing evolution in cybercriminal tactics targeting Microsoft platforms. A newly uncovered phishing campaign harnesses the trusted veneer of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice, weaponizing...
The rapid proliferation of sophisticated cybercrime tactics continues to shape the security landscape for organizations worldwide. Recent findings by Check Point Research have drawn urgent attention to a new and particularly devious phishing campaign exploiting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer...
Phishing attacks remain among the most effective forms of cybercrime, and their sophisticated evolution is on full display in a newly identified campaign exploiting Microsoft’s “Dynamics 365 Customer Voice.” According to a detailed investigation by Check Point Research, attackers have leveraged...
The growing adoption of generative AI in the workplace has ushered in sweeping changes across industries, delivering newfound efficiencies and innovative capabilities. Yet, with each leap toward automation and intelligence, a parallel, shadowy world of cyber threats surges ahead. A recent...
A critical security flaw lurking within Microsoft’s legacy Telnet Client has ignited concern across the cybersecurity landscape, especially among enterprises that still maintain this aging utility. Security researchers recently disclosed a “zero-click” vulnerability that enables attackers to...
A newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft’s Telnet Client (telnet.exe) has raised alarms across the cybersecurity community. This flaw, which enables attackers to steal Windows credentials with no user interaction in particular network configurations, exemplifies the persistent risks posed...
A new browser-based threat dubbed the “Cookie-Bite” attack is capturing the cybersecurity community’s attention, raising major concerns over the integrity of authentication within cloud environments like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, AWS, and others. The discovery, recently...
Microsoft's March and April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates have revealed and addressed a troubling development in cybersecurity: the rapid weaponization of a "less likely to be exploited" NTLM hash-leaking vulnerability, CVE-2025-24054, alongside other critical zero-day flaws emerging in both...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates in March 2025 unveiled a significant security challenge tied to the legacy NTLM protocol widely used across Windows environments. Despite Microsoft's rating of the vulnerability CVE-2025-24054 as "less likely" to be exploited, threat actors demonstrated their...
In recent weeks, Microsoft 365 users have found themselves in the crosshairs of a sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) campaign that exploits the cloud service’s very reputation for trust and reliability. Rather than launching the usual barrage of phishing emails filled with tyrannical...
A Tale of Two Breaches: Microsoft and Apple Patch Rapidly Exploited Vulnerabilities
When Microsoft released its batch of security updates on March 11 during Patch Tuesday, few in the broader security community could have predicted just how quickly threat actors would weaponize one particular...
Few threats in cybersecurity are as persistent and adaptable as phishing, and the hospitality sector has long been a lucrative target for cybercriminals driven by the promise of valuable credentials, financial data, and the prospect of high-impact fraud. One of the latest campaigns, meticulously...
If you’ve already started mentally composing your next big idea in Outlook, you might want to hit “Save as Draft” for a moment—there’s a new cyberattack in town, and it’s got your Microsoft 365 credentials written all over it... possibly in Cyrillic.
A New Breed of Phishing: Sophisticated Social...
Microsoft 365 account holders, it’s time to clutch your credentials like your last stick of office coffee—hackers have orchestrated another clever plot, this time through everyone’s favorite messaging apps. If you thought WhatsApp and Signal were just for family chats and cryptic office banter...
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Once upon a time in the bustling land of corporate IT, passwords roamed freely through Windows networks, blissfully unaware that NTLM—the venerable but rather creaky gatekeeper of authentication—was about to get a rude awakening courtesy of modern cybercriminals.
The NTLM Elephant in the Room...