How attackers use and abuse Microsoft MFA
Microsoft has been pushing for the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to thwart attackers for many years. But threat actors are keeping up with the increasing enterprise …
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Phishers use custom phishing kit to hijack MFA-protected enterprise Microsoft accounts
An ongoing, large-scale phishing campaign is targeting owners of business email accounts at companies in the FinTech, Lending, Insurance, Energy and Manufacturing sectors in …
Phishers steal Office 365 users’ session cookies to bypass MFA, commit payment fraud
A massive phishing campaign has been targeting Office 365 (i.e., Microsoft 365) users in over 10,000 organizations since September 2021 and successfully bypassing multi-factor …
Rate of IT security incidents grows with company size
The rate of IT security incidents increases the more Microsoft 365 security features are used, according to Hornetsecurity. Organizations using Microsoft 365 and that use 1 or …
Microsoft Office apps are vulnerable to IDN homograph attacks
Microsoft Office apps – including Outlook – are vulnerable to homograph attacks based on internationalized domain names (IDNs). In practice, this means that users …
DTEX Systems extends scope and protection of Microsoft 365 E5 modules
DTEX Systems announced new capabilities within its DTEX InTERCEPT for Behavioral DLP solution that expand the scope and protection provided by multiple Microsoft 365 E5 …
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 boosts customers’ data resilience and mitigates SaaS data risks
Veeam Software released the latest version of the company’s fastest growing Software as a Service (SaaS) product — Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6. The backup and recovery …
AvePoint Ransomware Detection identifies suspicious behavior within users’ Microsoft OneDrive
AvePoint launched Ransomware Detection, as part of Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365, to further protect digital collaboration data. This new capability proactively detects …
Attackers use Microsoft Teams as launchpad for malware
Hackers are starting to realize that Microsoft Teams is a great means of spreading tentacles throughout an organization’s systems; since the start of the year, Avanan …
Microsoft: Enterprise MFA adoption still low
While two-factor authentication usage in the consumer space is climbing quickly, enterprises are still straggling when it comes to using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to …
Organizations neglecting Microsoft 365 cybersecurity features
Nearly half of organizations are not using the full set of features and applications available in Microsoft 365, a research from Ensono reveals. Most notably, many enterprises …
Cloudflare joins Microsoft 365 Networking Partner Program to optimize user connectivity
Cloudflare announced it has joined the Microsoft 365 Networking Partner Program (NPP). Customers of Cloudflare’s Zero Trust platform, Cloudflare One, will now benefit from …