Credit to Author: Sunny Lu| Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000
In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta’s campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries.
Read moreCredit to Author: Herain Oberoi| Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000
NIS2 is the most comprehensive European cybersecurity directive yet, covering 18 sectors and 160,000+ companies. The Zero Trust principles addressed by Microsoft Security solutions can help you protect your organization and meet NIS2 requirements.
The post Navigating NIS2 requirements with Microsoft Security solutions appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet, and 100 hospitals in Romania go offline amid a major ransomware attack.
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Credit to Author: Stephen Clark, Ars Technica| Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:45:16 +0000
The prototype satellites hitched a ride on a Falcon 9 rocket.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:30:55 +0000
A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of an effort to block legislation that aimed to limit cops and spies from buying Americans’ private data.
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Microsoft on Tuesday released 73 updates in its monthly Patch Tuesday release, addressing issues in Microsoft Exchange Server and Adobe and two zero-day flaws being actively exploited in Microsoft Outlook (CVE-2024-21410) and Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2024-21413).
Including the recent reports that the Windows SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2024-21351) is under active exploitation, we have added “Patch Now” schedules to Microsoft Office, Windows and Exchange Server. The team at Readiness has provided this detailed infographic outlining the risks associated with each of the updates for this cycle.
A group of cybercriminals is committing bank fraud by convincing victims to scan their IDs and faces.
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Credit to Author: Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:17:55 +0000
A new report cited 28 “verified” accounts on X that appear to be tied to sanctioned groups or individuals.
Read moreOne of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes has flipped from “Likely to be Exploited” to “Exploitation Detected”.
Read moreCredit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Microsoft, in collaboration with OpenAI, is publishing research on emerging threats in the age of AI, focusing on identified activity associated with known threat actors Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, and others. The observed activity includes prompt-injections, attempted misuse of large language models (LLM), and fraud.
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