Australian small and medium businesses are sprinting to adopt generative AI — often by pasting confidential company data into free consumer tools — and that rush is creating a clear, demonstrable security and compliance gap that needs urgent remediation.
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Australia faces a sharpened cyber‑risk horizon as Microsoft prepares to stop mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, at the same moment hackers are being handed increasingly powerful tools — and a new HP–Microsoft study warns many small and medium businesses are making themselves...
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More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 even as Microsoft’s official support deadline looms, creating a wide and growing security gap that affects consumers, small businesses, and enterprise networks alike. New telemetry shared publicly via cybersecurity vendor...
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Microsoft’s iOS Microsoft 365 Copilot app is being stripped of advanced OneDrive file-management capabilities, redirecting users to the OneDrive app for folder browsing, permission changes, and downloads — a move that finalizes the app’s transition from an all-in-one Office hub into a focused AI...
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Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI assistant that has garnered headlines for revolutionizing enterprise productivity, recently faced its most sobering security reckoning yet with the disclosure of “EchoLeak”—a vulnerability so novel, insidious, and systemic that it redefines what...
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A critical zero-click vulnerability in Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, identified as CVE-2025-32711 and dubbed "EchoLeak," has been discovered by researchers at Aim Security. This flaw allowed attackers to exfiltrate sensitive organizational data without any user interaction, posing a...
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A critical zero-click vulnerability in Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, dubbed EchoLeak and tracked as CVE-2025-32711, was recently discovered by researchers at Aim Security. This flaw allowed attackers to exfiltrate sensitive organizational data without any user interaction, posing a...
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Microsoft Copilot, touted as a transformative productivity tool for enterprises, has recently come under intense scrutiny after the discovery of a significant zero-click vulnerability known as EchoLeak (CVE-2025-32711). This flaw, now fixed, provides a revealing lens into the evolving threat...
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Zero-click vulnerabilities represent the cutting-edge in cybersecurity threats, blending technical ingenuity with chilling efficiency. The recently disclosed CVE-2025-32711, dubbed “EchoLeak,” stands as a stark illustration of this evolving risk landscape, targeting none other than Microsoft 365...
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Here’s an executive summary and key facts about the “EchoLeak” vulnerability (CVE-2025-32711) that affected Microsoft 365 Copilot:
What Happened?
EchoLeak (CVE-2025-32711) is a critical zero-click vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Attackers could exploit the LLM Scope Violation flaw by...
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Here’s a concise summary and analysis of the 0-Click “EchoLeak” vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot, based on the GBHackers report and full technical article:
Key Facts:
Vulnerability Name: EchoLeak
CVE ID: CVE-2025-32711
CVSS Score: 9.3 (Critical)
Affected Product: Microsoft 365 Copilot...
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A critical vulnerability recently disclosed in Microsoft Copilot—codenamed “EchoLeak” and officially catalogued as CVE-2025-32711—has sent ripples through the cybersecurity landscape, challenging widely-held assumptions about the safety of AI-powered productivity tools. For the first time...
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Here is what is officially known about CVE-2025-32711, the M365 Copilot Information Disclosure Vulnerability:
Type: Information Disclosure via AI Command Injection
Product: Microsoft 365 Copilot
Impact: An unauthorized attacker can disclose information over a network by exploiting the way...
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