Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday that took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. […]
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More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock. Your Web browser knows how to find a site like […]
Microsoft announces that Skype will soon remove all ads, including those from chats and channels, in a recent insider build. The post Microsoft needs more Skype users than it does for extra bucks, making the app ad-free appeared first on MSPoweruser.
Originally published by CyberArk.Written by Mike Bykat.A popular topic of conversation in my day-to-day work is how to secure privileged access to cloud management consoles and workloads. And that’s no surprise, considering more and more applications and workloads are migrating to the cloud.Up until recently, the answer has typically been clear when it comes to […]
Japanese organizations are the target of a Chinese nation-state threat actor that leverages malware families like LODEINFO and NOOPDOOR to harvest sensitive information from compromised hosts while stealthily remaining under the radar in some cases for a time period ranging from two to three years. Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason is tracking the campaign under the […]
Meta AI mishandled a political event, incorrectly denying an assassination attempt on Trump. The company apologizes, blaming hallucination. The post Meta AI says Trump’s attempted assassination didn’t happen. Then, it blames hallucination appeared first on MSPoweruser.
We’ll TL;DR the FUDdy introduction: we all know that phishing attacks are on the rise in scale and complexity, that AI is enabling more sophisticated attacks that evade traditional defenses, and the never-ending cybersecurity talent gap means we’re all struggling to keep security teams fully staffed. Given that reality, security teams need to be able […]
A new malicious campaign has been observed making use of malicious Android apps to steal users’ SMS messages since at least February 2022 as part of a large-scale campaign. The malicious apps, spanning over 107,000 unique samples, are designed to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs) used for online account verification to commit identity fraud. “Of those […]
Companies in Russia and Moldova have been the target of a phishing campaign orchestrated by a little-known cyber espionage group known as XDSpy. The findings come from cybersecurity firm F.A.C.C.T., which said the infection chains lead to the deployment of a malware called DSDownloader. The activity was observed this month, it added. XDSpy is a […]
After a delay, OpenAI’s humanoid Voice Mode has finally started rolling out for select ChatGPT Plus subscribers. The post You may be able to try humanoid Voice Mode if you’re a ChatGPT Plus subscriber appeared first on MSPoweruser.