X has confirmed that paid middlemen tried to bribe platform employees to reinstate accounts that were suspended for running crypto scams — and the episode exposes a wider, organized criminal pipeline that spans social platforms, gaming ecosystems, and notorious online threat groups. The...
Microsoft quietly patched a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed the assistant to read and summarize enterprise files without producing the expected Purview audit entry — a gap that, if exploited, could let insiders or attackers extract sensitive data while leaving no trace in...
Microsoft’s Copilot is delivering real productivity gains across Word, Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — but a recent disclosure shows those gains can come at the cost of auditability: under certain prompting patterns Copilot has produced user-visible summaries and actions...
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A security researcher’s routine Copilot query revealed a startling blind spot in Microsoft’s logging: under certain prompts, Copilot could return file summaries without leaving the expected Purview audit entry — and, according to the researcher, Microsoft quietly rolled out a fix without issuing...
A critical vulnerability has emerged in the widely deployed Microsoft SharePoint platform, labeled as CVE-2025-49701, which poses significant cybersecurity implications for enterprise environments relying on SharePoint as a central pillar for collaboration and document management. Discovered in...
When critical infrastructure and industrial environments are at stake, the resilience of software components interconnecting data pipelines is non-negotiable. The AVEVA PI Connector for CygNet is a keystone for organizations that rely on seamless, secure OT-IT integration, especially within...
Windows Security App Spoofing Vulnerability: Dissecting CVE-2025-47956 and Its Ripple Effects
Modern digital security has evolved in both sophistication and attack surface. Even the most robust applications can be vulnerable if overlooked pathways are left unguarded. One such critical flaw...
An insidious new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-32703, has been disclosed in Microsoft Visual Studio, one of the most widely used integrated development environments for Windows and cross-platform development. This information disclosure flaw, rooted in insufficient access control...
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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...
Here is a summary of the original Petri article on the Windows 11 'inetpub' folder security risk:
What happened?
After the April 2025 Patch Tuesday update, a new "inetpub" folder started appearing on Windows 10 and 11 machines.
Microsoft created this folder to help patch a bug (CVE-2025-21204)...
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