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AI
Microsoft spots LLM-obfuscated phishing attack

Cybercriminals are increasingly using AI-powered tools and (malicious) large language models to create convincing, error-free emails, deepfakes, online personas, …

Microsoft 365 phishing
Microsoft disrupts the RaccoonO365 Phishing-as-a-Service operation, names alleged leader

Microsoft and Cloudflare have disrupted a Phishing-as-a-Service operation selling the RaccoonO365 kit for stealing Microsoft 365 account credentials. “Using a court …

Patch Tuesday
September 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: The CVE matrix

September 2025 Patch Tuesday is now live: Microsoft, Adobe, SAP deliver critical fixes for September 2025 Patch Tuesday We work in an industry driven by Common Vulnerabilities …

ClickFix
Fake macOS help sites push Shamos infostealer via ClickFix technique

Criminals are taking advantage of macOS users’ need to resolve technical issues to get them to infect their machines with the Shamos infostealer, Crowdstrike researchers …

free GenAI AI courses
Free courses: Master AI tools from Microsoft, AWS, and Google

Learn how AI technologies can be applied to enhance security, create safe and responsible applications, develop intelligent agents, and improve information discovery. …

Patch Tuesday
Microsoft fixes “BadSuccessor” Kerberos vulnerability (CVE-2025-53779)

For August 2025 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security updates resolving 100+ security vulnerabilities in its various solutions, including a relative path traversal …

Patch Tuesday
August 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Try, try again

July turned into a surprisingly busy month. It started slowly with a fairly ‘calm’ Patch Tuesday as I forecasted in my last blog. Although there were 130 new CVEs addressed …

Microsoft
Project Ire: Microsoft’s autonomous malware detection AI agent

Microsoft is working on a AI agent whose main goal is autonomous malware detection and the prototype – dubbed Project Ire – is showing great potential, the company …

Microsoft SharePoint
Storm-2603 spotted deploying ransomware on exploited SharePoint servers

One of the groups that, in the past few weeks, has been exploiting vulnerabilities in on-prem SharePoint installation has been observed deploying Warlock ransomware, Microsoft …

Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint servers under attack via zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-53770)

This is a developing story, new update here: Microsoft pins on-prem SharePoint attacks on Chinese threat actors Attackers are exploiting a zero-day variant (CVE-2025-53770) of …

patch tuesday
July 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Take a break from the grind

July 2025 Patch Tuesday is now live: Microsoft fixes critical wormable Windows flaw (CVE-2025-47981) There was a barrage of updates released the week of June 2025 Patch …

networking
NTLM relay attacks are back from the dead

NTLM relay attacks are the easiest way for an attacker to compromise domain-joined hosts. While many security practitioners think NTLM relay is a solved problem, it is not – …

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