A new Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing kit targeting Microsoft 365 accounts has the ability to intercept both user credentials and two-factor authentication (2FA), ultimately bypassing anti-phishing defenses such as email and secure web gateways. In a Jan. 16 blog post, Sekoia researchers said these phishing pages have been circulating since at least October 2024 and have … Read more
Microsoft will stop supporting Office apps on Windows 10 this year. Also it really wants you to upgrade to Windows 11. According to a Microsoft blog post, the company will end support for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 on Oct. 14, 2025. That includes Office apps: Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneDrive. … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a dramatic restructuring of the company’s engineering organization—all around pivoting the company’s focus to developing the tools that will underpin agentic AI. Dubbed “CoreAI – Platform and Tools,” the new division rolls the existing AI platform team and the previous developer division (which is responsible for everything from .NET … Read more
Jan 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Vulnerability Microsoft has shed light on a now-patched security flaw impacting Apple macOS that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed an attacker running as “root” to bypass the operating system’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) and install malicious kernel drivers by loading third-party kernel extensions. The vulnerability in question is … Read more
Microsoft has issued a critical advisory and urgent warning regarding an issue affecting the October and November 2024 updates for Windows 11, version 24H2. This issue could significantly impact the operating system’s ability to receive and apply future security updates when these updates are installed using physical media. This poses a severe risk to the … Read more
