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The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting Indian governmental, academic, and strategic entities with a remote access trojan (RAT) that grants them persistent control over compromised hosts
The attack by the one of the most impactful RaaS groups active today demonstrates an evasion strategy that can stump defenses not equipped to detect cross-platform threats.
Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience? Register debate series The UK government's five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft is set to see public sector bodies spend around £1.9 billion each year—nearly £9 billion in total over half a decade. It's a vast sum for software and services, and one that deserves close scrutiny.…
Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published Britain's competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate both with strategic market status (SMS) to take action against them.…
Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond Comment A sharply argued blog post warns that heavy reliance on Microsoft poses serious strategic risks for organizations – a viewpoint unlikely to win favor with Redmond or its millions of corporate customers.…
Most cyberattacks today don’t start with loud alarms or broken firewalls. They start quietly—inside tools and websites your business already trusts
An unidentified threat actor is using .lnk Windows shortcut files in a series of sophisticated attacks utilizing in-memory code execution and living-off-the-land cyberattack strategies.
EVP Muhi Majzoub Outlines Integration of TDR, Generative AI Across Core PlatformsOpenText is embedding threat detection, identity protection and generative AI across its cloud and on premise platforms. EVP Muhi Majzoub says the threat detection and response system will integrate with Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike and others to identify anomalies and stop attacks in real time.
Microsoft said it has discovered a new variant of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET as part of limited attacks in the wild
The threat actors behind the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have been observed leveraging now-patched security flaws in Microsoft Active Directory and the Netlogon protocol to escalate privileges and gain unauthorized access to a victim network's domain controller as part of their post-compromise strategy
CEO Satya Nadella Highlights DeepSeek-R1 Model, AI Cost Reductions, Future GrowthMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI scaling laws, compounded by Moore’s Law, are accelerating efficiency gains, with a 10x improvement per model generation. He revealed Microsoft’s strategy for optimizing AI costs and highlights DeepSeek-R1’s availability on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub.
‘MirrorFace’ group found ways to run malware in the Windows sandbox, which is worrying Japan’s National Police Agency and Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity have confirmed third party reports of attacks on local orgs by publishing details of a years-long series of attacks attributed to a China-backed source.…
Blackpoint Cyber CEO Jon Murchison on MSP Cloud Identity RisksWith a 30-to-1 ratio of cloud to on-premises attacks, Blackpoint Cyber CEO Jon Murchison stresses the importance of enhanced identity detection and AI-driven solutions. He also outlines strategic moves for managed service providers to align with Microsoft’s ecosystem.
Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) form the foundation of modern defense strategies. Unlike indicators of compromise (IOCs), TTPs are more stable, making them a reliable way to identify specific cyber threats. Here are some of the most commonly used techniques, according to ANY.RUN's Q3 2024 report on malware trends, complete with real-world examples
Identity security is front, and center given all the recent breaches that include Microsoft, Okta, Cloudflare and Snowflake to name a few. Organizations are starting to realize that a shake-up is needed in terms of the way we approach identity security both from a strategic but also a technology vantage point. Identity security is more than just provisioning access The conventional view
Microsoft warns that ransomware threat actor Storm-0501 has recently switched tactics and now targets hybrid cloud environments, expanding its strategy to compromise all victim assets. [...]
A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation Do you have problems configuring Microsoft's Defender? You might not be alone: Microsoft admitted that whatever it's using for its defensive implementation exacerbated yesterday's Azure instability.…
Palo Alto Networks Reaches Leaderboard While Trend Micro Falls to Strong PerformerThe XDR market has matured significantly, Forrester found. Leading vendors such as Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike are supporting diverse telemetry sources and developing strategies to replace traditional SIEM tools. These advancements give better detection quality and cost management.
Vendors' Free, Discounted Services Part of Biden's Health Sector Cyber InitiativeGoogle and Microsoft have agreed to provide free or highly discounted cyber assistance to rural and critical-access hospitals to support of an evolving strategy from the White House aimed at bolstering cybersecurity in the healthcare sector in the face of rising attacks.
A new sophisticated cyber attack has been observed targeting endpoints geolocated to Ukraine with an aim to deploy Cobalt Strike and seize control of the compromised hosts