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  1. CVE-2025-30376: Critical Microsoft Excel Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Explained

    Microsoft Excel, widely recognized as the cornerstone of spreadsheet productivity, remains integral to business, education, and data analysis across the globe. Its versatility, however, also makes it a prime target for malicious actors intent on exploiting vulnerabilities within such a...
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  2. Understanding CVE-2025-29977: The New Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability and How to Protect Your Systems

    Microsoft Excel, an indispensable staple within the Office productivity suite, has faced intricate security threats over the years. Recently, the disclosure and analysis of CVE-2025-29977 — a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability hinging on a "use after free" memory flaw — has reignited...
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  3. Noodlophile Malware Cripples AI Video Generators, Steals Sensitive Data via Deceptive Campaigns

    A surge of deceptive AI-powered video generation tools has recently been identified as the latest vehicle for distributing a new, highly sophisticated information-stealing malware family known as Noodlophile. According to a detailed report from Morphisec and corroborated by cybersecurity news...
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  4. Microsoft Battles AI Hacking Network Storm-2139 to Protect Digital Safety

    As Microsoft’s AI Incident Detection and Response team traces their way through the rough digital corridors of online forums and anonymous web boards, a new kind of cyber threat marks a stark escalation in the ongoing battle to preserve the integrity and safety of artificial intelligence...
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  5. CVE-2025-21416 in Azure Virtual Desktop: Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability and Security Best Practices

    A critical security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-21416 has been disclosed in Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft’s cloud-based remote desktop solution, drawing the attention of enterprises and security professionals worldwide. This vulnerability centers on an elevation of privilege risk...
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  6. April 2025 Windows Update: Why is the Empty 'inetpub' Folder on My C: Drive?

    Windows updates continue to keep IT professionals and enthusiasts on their toes. The latest April 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5055523) and Windows 10 (KB5055518) has introduced a curious new quirk: an empty “inetpub” folder appearing in the root of the C: drive, even on systems...
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  7. Critical Industrial IoT Vulnerability: CVE-2022-24999 in ABB RMC-100 Controllers Threatens Manufacturing Security

    Few industrial vulnerabilities have the far-reaching potential to disrupt critical infrastructures as profoundly as those discovered in the heart of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) systems. Among the latest to draw attention is CVE-2022-24999, a prototype pollution flaw unearthed in ABB’s...
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  8. Beware Microsoft 365 OAuth Phishing: Protect Your Organization from Diplomatic Cyberattacks

    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...
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  9. Critical Johnson Controls ICU Vulnerability Exposes Industrial Systems to Remote Exploits in 2025

    If you had “remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overflow in Johnson Controls ICU” on your 2025 cybersecurity bingo card, congratulations—your predictive powers are unmatched, and perhaps terrifying. For the rest of us mere mortals, now is a prudent time to uncross your fingers and fire up...
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  10. AI-Cyber Threats: Symantec Reveals AI Can Become a Cyber Weapon

    Symantec’s recent demonstration reveals how AI agents, particularly OpenAI’s "Operator," could be twisted into powerful cyber weapons. Despite AI being hailed as a productivity booster, its potential for abuse is becoming alarmingly clear. In an eye-opening proof-of-concept (PoC), Symantec’s...
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  11. CVE-2025-21225: Fixing the Vulnerability in Windows RD Gateway

    Brace yourselves, folks. If you use Microsoft's Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway), it’s time for some proactive cyber defense measures. Good news? Microsoft has already rolled out fixes. Bad news? The vulnerability, labeled CVE-2025-21225, has "Important" stamped all over it, and it...
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  12. AA21-200A: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted APT40 Actors Associated with China’s MSS Hainan State Security Department

    Original release date: July 19, 2021 Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide information on a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known in open-source...
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  13. AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: April 20, 2021 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises affecting U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and other private sector organizations by a cyber threat actor—or actors—beginning in June 2020...
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  14. AA20-106A: Guidance on the North Korean Cyber Threat

    Original release date: April 15, 2020 | Last revised: June 23, 2020 Summary The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international...
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  15. AA20-107A: Continued Threat Actor Exploitation Post Pulse Secure VPN Patching

    Original release date: April 16, 2020 Summary Note: This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations. This Alert provides an update...
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  16. AA20-106A: Guidance on the North Korean Cyber Threat

    Original release date: April 14, 2020 | Last revised: April 15, 2020 Summary The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international...
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  17. TA18-275A: HIDDEN COBRA – FASTCash Campaign

    Original release date: October 02, 2018 Systems Affected Retail Payment Systems Overview This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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