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Also: AI in Cloud Security, Integrating Zero Trust Principles into API DeploymentIn the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the potential role of AI in cloud security, how the recent cyberattack on Microsoft by Russian state hackers highlighted the vulnerabilities associated with legacy systems, and how to secure APIs in the age of zero trust.

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing desktop and mobile email clients to fail to connect when using Outlook.com accounts. [...]

Free unofficial patches are available for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability dubbed 'EventLogCrasher' that lets attackers remotely crash the Event Log service on devices within the same Windows domain. [...]

The Russians are engaged in widespread influence operations designed to erode trust, increase polarization, and threaten democratic processes around the globe.

New phishing attacks abuse Microsoft Teams group chat requests to push malicious attachments that install DarkGate malware payloads on victims' systems. [...]

Threat hunters have identified a new campaign that delivers the ZLoader malware, resurfacing nearly two years after the botnet's infrastructure was dismantled in April 2022

18,000 customers, including the Pentagon and Microsoft, may have other thoughts SolarWinds – whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz's customers could be spied upon – has accused America's financial watchdog of seeking to "revictimise the victim" after the agency sued it over the 2020 attack.…

Microsoft is investigating an issue that prevents Outlook and other email clients from connecting when using an Outlook.com account. [...]

Microsoft is investigating a second outage affecting Microsoft Teams users across North and South America in the last three days. [...]

A now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Outlook could be exploited by threat actors to access NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hashed passwords when opening a specially crafted file

Microsoft said the Russian nation-state group Midnight Blizzard obfuscated its attack through the use of an OAuth application

Cybersecurity researchers have detected in the wild yet another variant of the Phobos ransomware family known as Faust

Cybersecurity researchers have identified malicious packages on the open-source Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that deliver an information stealing malware called WhiteSnake Stealer on Windows systems