Technology company Microsoft has revealed that it suffered a data leak in July 2020 which exposed 38 terabytes of private employee data. News of the leak was made public via a blog post on September 18. In it, Microsoft explained that the leak was caused by a software misconfiguration. The company shared that the misconfiguration […]
Microsoft accidentally revealed a huge trove of sensitive internal information dating back over three years via a public GitHub repository, it has emerged. Cloud security firm Wiz discovered the privacy snafu when it found the GitHub repository “robust-models-transfer” which belonged to Microsoft’s AI research division. Although the repository was meant only to provide access to […]
The BlackCat ransomware gang, suspected to be a rebrand of DarkSide/BlackMatter, has been using stolen Microsoft accounts and a new variant of the Sphynx encryptor to target Azure cloud storage.
Microsoft addressed five critical security vulnerabilities in its September Patch Tuesday update, along with two “important”-rated zero-days under active attack in the wild. In total, Microsoft released 59 new patches addressing bugs across the product gamut: They affect Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, Office, .NET and Visual Studio, Azure, Microsoft Dynamics, and Windows Defender. The update […]
Sep 12, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Malware A sophisticated phishing campaign is using a Microsoft Word document lure to distribute a trifecta of threats, namely Agent Tesla, OriginBotnet, and OriginBotnet, to gather a wide range of information from compromised Windows machines. “A phishing email delivers the Word document as an attachment, presenting a deliberately blurred image […]
Affected platforms: Microsoft WindowsImpacted parties: Windows UsersImpact: Collects sensitive information from a victim’s computerSeverity level: Critical Our FortiGuard Labs captured a phishing campaign that spreads a new Agent Tesla variant. This well-known malware family uses a .Net-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) and data stealer to gain initial access. It is often used for Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS). […]
New virtual machines for Microsoft Azure allow developers to create generative AI apps that can be scaled to work with thousands of Nvidia H100 GPUs. The ND H100 v5 VM series on Azure, which works in tandem with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, boosts the performance of large-scale deployments by companies such as OpenAI, creators of the […]