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Critical SharePoint Exploit Chain Targets Enterprise Systems with Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
A newly disclosed exploit chain targeting Microsoft SharePoint servers is sending shockwaves across enterprise IT and cybersecurity circles, revealing a sophisticated blend of zero-day and known vulnerabilities that enable cyber attackers to gain near-total control of systems. Security agencies...- ChatGPT
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Russian Cyber Espionage in Moscow: How Secret Blizzard Uses Fake Antivirus and AiTM Attacks
Foreign embassies in Moscow are facing an unprecedented onslaught of cyber espionage, orchestrated by Russian state-backed hackers leveraging an array of advanced techniques to compromise their digital security. According to recent disclosures from Microsoft Threat Intelligence, these actors...- ChatGPT
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Unmasking Scattered Spider: Protecting Internal Messaging Platforms from Sophisticated Cyber Attacks
In a rapidly evolving threat landscape marked by sophisticated digital deception, the Scattered Spider hacking group has carved out a notorious reputation for exploiting trust—both technological and human—to compromise some of the world’s most widely used platforms. Recent advisories from...- ChatGPT
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Microsegmentation in Zero Trust: Essential Guide for Enhanced Network Security
Microsegmentation is rapidly emerging as a strategic linchpin within the broader adoption of zero trust architectures (ZTAs), fundamentally reshaping the way organizations across sectors perceive and manage network security. The recent release by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...- ChatGPT
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Urgent SharePoint Zero-Day Cyberattack: Protect Your Organization Now
Microsoft has recently issued an urgent alert regarding active cyberattacks targeting its on-premises SharePoint Server software. These attacks have exploited previously unknown vulnerabilities, compromising approximately 100 organizations worldwide, including government agencies and businesses...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day Vulnerability (ToolShell): Critical Cyber Threat and How to Respond
Microsoft’s SharePoint platform has long been regarded as an indispensable piece of enterprise infrastructure, relied upon by thousands of government agencies, universities, and businesses worldwide to facilitate collaboration, document management, and internal communications. Yet news broke...- ChatGPT
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Critical SharePoint Vulnerability: How to Protect Your Organization from Active Cyberattacks
A wave of alarm swept through the global IT community this weekend as Microsoft confirmed “active attacks” targeting its SharePoint servers, exposing a critical vulnerability that could put thousands of organizations—including government agencies, health care firms, banks, and industrial...- ChatGPT
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UK Cybersecurity Alert: Lessons from Recent Microsoft Hack Campaign
Britain’s cybersecurity landscape is once again in sharp focus after confirmation that the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has detected a “limited number” of domestic victims in the recent Microsoft hack campaign. While not on the scale of some prior, sweeping incidents, the attack...- ChatGPT
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Critical Vulnerability in Leviton Energy Devices (CVE-2025-6185): Risks & Mitigation
When a vulnerability in critical infrastructure devices like Leviton’s AcquiSuite and Energy Monitoring Hub surfaces, the impact can reverberate well beyond corporate IT—touching utilities, data centers, and building management systems worldwide. Recent disclosures have highlighted a significant...- ChatGPT
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Golden dMSA Vulnerability in Windows Server 2025: Critical Security Risks & Mitigation
Semperis researchers have identified a critical design flaw in Windows Server 2025's delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSAs), termed the "Golden dMSA" vulnerability. This flaw allows attackers to achieve persistent, undetected access to managed service accounts, potentially exposing resources...- ChatGPT
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How to Defend Against Octo Tempest: Microsoft Security Strategies for Modern Threats
The evolving threat landscape for enterprises and public institutions is continually shaped by the tactics of advanced cybercriminal groups. Among them, Octo Tempest—also known as Scattered Spider, Muddled Libra, UNC3944, and 0ktapus—has emerged as one of the most adaptive and persistent...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft July 2025 Patch Tuesday Review: 130 CVEs Without Zero-Day Exploits
Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday 2025 brings a significant security update, marking one of the most substantial patch releases of recent months with remedies for 130 distinct vulnerabilities spread across its product portfolio. While the sheer number of CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-47981: Critical Windows Authentication Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution
The emergence of CVE-2025-47981—a critical heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows SPNEGO Extended Negotiation (NEGOEX) security mechanism—has sent shockwaves through both enterprise IT departments and the broader cybersecurity community. This newly revealed flaw, affecting one of the...- ChatGPT
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Critical UPS Software Vulnerabilities Expose Industrial Power Systems to Cyberattacks
When a system designed to keep the lights on for critical infrastructure instead risks shutting them off with a few keystrokes, alarm bells ring far beyond the server room. Such is the case with recent critical security advisories surrounding the Voltronic Power and PowerShield lines of...- ChatGPT
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Iran’s Cyber Threats: How Digital Warfare Shapes Global Security in a Post-Nuclear Era
America’s decisive air campaign against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure may have changed the global security landscape overnight, but the destruction of spinning centrifuges and command bunkers does not signify the end of Iranian threats on the world stage. Far from it. The new battlefield is not...- ChatGPT
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Protecting Microsoft Entra ID from AI-Driven Cloud Identity Attacks Using TeamFiltration
A new and deeply concerning evolution in cyberattack methodology is putting Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) users and organizations at unprecedented risk. This surge in account takeover (ATO) campaigns exploits TeamFiltration—a legitimate penetration testing tool...- ChatGPT
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June Patch Tuesday 2025: Critical Windows Vulnerabilities, Zero-Days & Remote Exploits
As security professionals and IT administrators worldwide keep a vigilant eye on Microsoft’s monthly security rollouts, this June’s Patch Tuesday offers both relief and renewed resolve. While the patching workload is characterized as relatively mild compared to previous months, critical security...- ChatGPT
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June 2025 Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Critical Zero-Days & Expert Mitigation Tips
June’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft has delivered one of the most notable and urgent security update packages in recent memory, with administrators worldwide racing against threat actors to secure their Windows environments. Spanning 66 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day already being...- ChatGPT
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New Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Listed in CISA KEV Catalog: What You Need to Know
Two newly discovered vulnerabilities have taken center stage in the ever-evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. This move, driven by verified evidence of active...- ChatGPT
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Russian Cyber Espionage Threats to Western Logistics and Tech Sectors Amid Ukraine Support
Russian state-sponsored cyber operations have become one of the most significant digital threats facing the critical sectors of North America and Europe, with Western logistics and technology companies now on especially high alert. A newly published joint Cybersecurity Advisory from agencies...- ChatGPT
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