Microsoft and Apple have both recently released critical security patches highlighting the ever-present risks corporate and individual users face in today’s interconnected digital landscape. Although seemingly routine updates, these fixes reveal profound vulnerabilities actively exploited by...
Microsoft's March and April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates have revealed and addressed a troubling development in cybersecurity: the rapid weaponization of a "less likely to be exploited" NTLM hash-leaking vulnerability, CVE-2025-24054, alongside other critical zero-day flaws emerging in both...
Microsoft’s March 2025 Patch Tuesday: Analyzing the Security Implications of 57 Fixed Flaws and the PipeMagic Threat
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2025 stands out as a critical milestone in the ongoing struggle to secure Windows environments worldwide. With 57 newly patched...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on March 11, 2025, introduced crucial security updates, among them a vulnerability labeled CVE-2025-24054 impacting the NTLM authentication protocol. Though Microsoft initially rated this vulnerability as "less likely" to be exploited, reality quickly contradicted that...
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday in March 2025 introduced a significant security update addressing numerous vulnerabilities. However, among these fixes was a vulnerability Microsoft rated as “less likely” to be exploited that rapidly became a severe threat in the wild, catching organizations off guard...
Microsoft's March 2025 Patch Tuesday rollout, released on March 11, originally aimed to address a range of security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems. However, one particular flaw, CVE-2025-24054, quickly transformed from a routine patch into a potent cybersecurity threat. This...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates in March 2025 unveiled a significant security challenge tied to the legacy NTLM protocol widely used across Windows environments. Despite Microsoft's rating of the vulnerability CVE-2025-24054 as "less likely" to be exploited, threat actors demonstrated their...
Windows Patch Tuesday Flaw Weaponized, Apple Fixes Critical Zero-Days: What You Need to Know
In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, the only constant is change—and the events following March 2025's Patch Tuesday have proven this once again. Just days after Microsoft rolled out its latest...
The latest threat to Windows security—CVE-2025-24054—has thrust NTLM (NT LAN Manager) authentication back into the cybersecurity spotlight, exposing both the fragility of long-standing authentication mechanisms and the urgent need for modernization in enterprise architectures. As organizations...
Windows security practitioners and enterprise administrators are confronting a rapidly evolving threat landscape, with a new vulnerability—CVE-2025-24054—exposing critical cracks in the armor of legacy NTLM authentication. As disclosures mount and unofficial fixes surface ahead of the official...
A newly surfaced cybersecurity threat has put over 130,000 devices under the control of a sophisticated botnet, leveraging these compromised endpoints to mount large-scale password spraying attacks against Microsoft 365 accounts. This troubling development, uncovered by SecurityScorecard’s...
If you’ve ever wondered whether the relics of IT’s past can come back to haunt you, look no further than NTLM authentication—a sort of ancient curse that’s less Indiana Jones and more Office Space. Windows still ships with this timeworn authentication protocol enabled by default. While it was a...
Legacy authentication protocols rarely make the news for good reasons, and yet here we are—NTLM is back in the headlines, but not for a nostalgia tour. Instead, it’s at the center of a renewed wave of cyber-attacks, reminding enterprise IT pros (and anyone reckless enough to run a Windows...
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If you thought your inbox was dangerous before, wait until you meet the humble .library-ms file, reimagined as the ultimate digital Trojan horse. If there’s one thing we’ve all learned from years of increasingly creative phishing attacks, it’s that cybercriminals will use any means possible to...
North winds carry more than just Poland’s infamous cold: as March 2025 would have it, they swept in a fresh surge of NTLM hash theft, thrusting CVE-2025-24054 into the glaring spotlight of cybersecurity’s main stage. Weeks before most CIOs had even had their coffee, threat actors were already...
Original release date: April 29, 2020
Summary
As organizations adapt or change their enterprise collaboration capabilities to meet “telework” requirements, many organizations are migrating to Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and other cloud collaboration services. Due to the speed of these...
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Original release date: April 29, 2020
Summary
As organizations adapt or change their enterprise collaboration capabilities to meet “telework” requirements, many organizations are migrating to Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and other cloud collaboration services. Due to the speed of these...
Original release date: April 16, 2018
Systems Affected
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Enabled Devices
Cisco Smart Install (SMI) Enabled Devices
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Enabled Network Devices
Overview
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts...