incident response

Microsoft’s productivity cloud stumbled again, but this time the interruption was short, diagnosable and — crucially — tied to the company’s edge networking fabric rather than a failure inside Office apps themselves. Background: what happened, in plain terms On Thursday, a subset of Microsoft...

If you noticed trouble reaching the Azure Portal, Microsoft Entra, or Microsoft 365 admin pages on the morning of October 9, 2025, you were seeing the visible fallout from a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that Microsoft traced to crashed Kubernetes instances underpinning critical edge...

Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure suffered a high-impact service disruption on Thursday morning, leaving administrators and customers across Europe and parts of Africa unable to reach the Azure Portal and numerous customer-facing applications — an event Microsoft traced to a measurable capacity...

Microsoft customers across Europe and parts of Africa and the Middle East experienced intermittent Azure Portal and related service disruptions on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss affecting Azure Front Door (AFD) instances that routed traffic for portal and...

Permiso’s new open-source tool P0LR Espresso is aimed squarely at the weakest link in cloud defense that most SOCs quietly tolerate: inconsistent, provider-specific log formats that slow investigations and obscure identity-based signals at the moment they matter most. The SiliconANGLE report...

LockBit 5.0 has reappeared as a multi‑platform threat that researchers say can hit Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi hosts in a single campaign — and its blend of enhanced obfuscation, modular design and virtualization‑aware routines makes it a materially different threat for enterprise defenders...

CISA’s new advisory on an incident response engagement lays out a blunt, actionable set of lessons from a compromise that began with a public-facing GeoServer being exploited for remote code execution—and the takeaways should be required reading for any defender running internet-facing services...

CISA’s new advisory is a blunt wake-up call: an endpoint detection and response (EDR) alert at a federal agency triggered an incident response engagement that exposed avoidable failures in patch management, incident response readiness, and threat monitoring—root causes that enabled attackers to...

SonicWall’s security teams confirmed a cloud‑backup incident that exposed a subset of MySonicWall backup “preference” files to a malicious actor, and issued urgent remediation playbooks for affected customers as federal guidance from CISA echoed the vendor’s call for immediate action. The...

Google pushed an emergency Chrome update to address CVE-2025-10585, a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine that Google says is being actively exploited in the wild — and because Microsoft Edge is Chromium-based, Windows users and enterprises must confirm their Edge builds...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-59216 describes a race-condition vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Component that can allow an authenticated local attacker to elevate privileges if they can win a timing window. Executive summary What it is: CVE-2025-59216 is a “concurrent execution using...

Short answer up front — I can write the 2,000+ word WindowsForum.com feature you asked for, but I need one quick clarification before I start: I can't find any public record for CVE‑2025‑59220. Public trackers and vendor records instead show multiple Windows “Bluetooth Service”...

Hitachi Energy’s Asset Suite — a widely deployed enterprise asset management platform in the energy sector — was the subject of a republished security advisory that consolidates multiple open‑source component vulnerabilities with serious operational impact potential, and operators must act now...

Westermo’s WeOS 5 series has a newly disclosed high‑severity vulnerability that deserves immediate attention from industrial network operators and Windows network teams responsible for OT‑IT convergence, because it can be used to inject operating‑system commands when an attacker can reach an...

Dover Fueling Solutions’ ProGauge MagLink family is at the center of a critical industrial‑control security alert that should be on every fuel‑site operator’s incident response checklist today: the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a high‑severity advisory...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed malicious “listener” malware actively deployed against Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) servers following public proof-of-concept exploit code for CVE-2025-4427 and CVE-2025-4428, and the resulting toolset allows...

CISA’s release of a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) detailing a Malicious Listener discovered on compromised Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) systems should reset priorities for every IT team that runs on-premises mobile device management (MDM). The analysis dissects two sets of malware...

SonicWall has confirmed a cloud‑backup compromise that exposed firewall configuration preference files stored in certain MySonicWall accounts, and customers who used the service are being urged to act immediately to contain and remediate potential follow‑on attacks. SonicWall’s notice —...

The U.S. House of Representatives is moving from restriction to adoption: an Axios exclusive reports that Microsoft’s Copilot AI will be made available to House members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize congressional operations, with Speaker Mike Johnson set to introduce the tool...

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...