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Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse’s footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks
Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa Black Hat Asia Israeli researchers found a series of flaws in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) and suggest this shows hybrid cloud management tools are a two-way attack surface that users don't spend enough time worrying about.…
Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.…
Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE).…
So many CVEs, so little time Digital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims' IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according to Microsoft researchers.…
Too slow react-ion time Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native's Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven't received the "broad public acknowledgement" that they should, according to security researchers.…
Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr Security researchers have revealed a .NET security flaw thought to affect a host of enterprise-grade products that they say Microsoft refuses to fix.…
And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace.…
Encryption protects content, not context Mischief-makers can guess the subjects being discussed with LLMs using a side-channel attack, according to Microsoft researchers. They told The Register that models from some providers, including Anthropic, AWS, DeepSeek, and Google, haven't been fixed, putting both personal users and enterprise communications at risk.…
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.…
Okta uncovers new phishing-as-a-service operation with 'multiple entities' falling victim Multiple attackers using a new phishing service dubbed VoidProxy to target organizations' Microsoft and Google accounts have successfully stolen users' credentials, multi-factor authentication codes, and session tokens in real time, according to security researchers.…
Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits A new China-aligned cybercrime crew named GhostRedirector has compromised at least 65 Windows servers worldwide - spotted in a June internet scan - using previously undocumented malware to juice gambling sites' rankings in Google search, according to ESET researchers.…
Not a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed Black hat A trio of researchers has disclosed a major prompt injection vulnerability in Google's Gemini large language model-powered applications.…
Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans Black Hat Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw in its business implementation.…
Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human assistance.…
MAPP program to blame? A week after Microsoft told the world that its July software updates didn't fully fix a couple of bugs, which allowed miscreants to take over on-premises SharePoint servers and remotely execute code, researchers have assembled much of the puzzle — with one big missing piece.…
Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar Scammers are hijacking the search results of people needing 24/7 support from Apple, Bank of America, Facebook, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, and PayPal in an attempt to trick victims into handing over personal or financial info, according to Malwarebytes senior director of research Jérôme Segura.…
Tricky attackers trying yet again to deceive the good guys on home territory Security researchers are once again being lured into traps by attackers, this time with fake exploits of serious Microsoft security flaws.…
A simple HTML change and the warning is gone! Researchers say cybercriminals can have fun bypassing one of Microsoft's anti-phishing measures in Outlook with some simple CSS tweaks.…
And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn't see this as much of a problem Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of repositories isn't necessarily deleted.…