According to recent research on employee offboarding, 70% of IT professionals say they’ve experienced the negative effects of incomplete IT offboarding, whether in the form of a security incident tied to an account that wasn’t deprovisioned, a surprise bill for resources that aren’t in use anymore, or a missed handoff of a critical resource or account. […]
Mikhail Parakhin, formerly a Microsoft executive, has joined the advisory board of Liquid AI. He was known as a chief of Bing & Copilot. The post Ex-Microsoft exec joins MIT spinoff Liquid AI’s advisory board appeared first on MSPoweruser.
Malicious actors are using a cloud attack tool named Xeon Sender to conduct SMS phishing and spam campaigns on a large scale by abusing legitimate services. “Attackers can use Xeon to send messages through multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers using valid credentials for the service providers,” SentinelOne security researcher Alex Delamotte said in a report shared […]
Chrome on Android 15 will have a feature that lets you redact sensitive data, like credit card details, when screen-sharing. The post Chrome on Android 15 to let you redact sensitive data when screen-sharing appeared first on MSPoweruser.
A newly patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows was exploited as a zero-day by Lazarus Group, a prolific state-sponsored actor affiliated with North Korea. The security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 (CVSS score: 7.8), has been described as a privilege escalation bug in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) for WinSock. “An attacker who successfully exploited […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered new infrastructure linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7. The two clusters of potential FIN7 activity “indicate communications inbound to FIN7 infrastructure from IP addresses assigned to Post Ltd (Russia) and SmartApe (Estonia), respectively,” Team Cymru said in a report published this week as part of a joint […]
Windows 11 Build 27686 has a few noteworthy improvements, such as 2TB support for FAT32 storage. It also improves Windows Sandbox and offers greater control over HDR settings, but there’s an undocumented change – the ability to set power mode for two power states. […]
Google will redact your credit card details, passwords and other sensitive information in Chrome when you’re sharing or recording your screen on Android. […]
A new data extortion group tracked as Mad Liberator is targeting AnyDesk users and runs a fake Microsoft Windows update screen to distract while exfiltrating data from the target device. […]
A clever disinformation campaign engages several Microsoft Azure and OVH cloud subdomains as well as Google search to promote malware and spam sites. […]