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Microsoft Criticized Over ‘Irresponsible’ Patching Timeline

Microsoft was criticized after it took five months to fully patch an issue in its Power platform.

Microsoft

Russian Threat Actor Leverages Microsoft Teams in Phishing Attacks

Researchers with Microsoft on Wednesday said that the threat actor has used a “highly targeted” social engineering attack to hit 40 global organizations.

Microsoft, Phishing

Microsoft: China-Based Hackers Accessed U.S. Government Emails

The threat group used forged authentication tokens - with an acquired Microsoft account consumer signing key - to access the email accounts of more than two dozen organizations.

Microsoft, China

Microsoft Warns of Unpatched Office Zero Day

The Microsoft zero-day flaw (CVE-2023-36884) is being leveraged by a Russian-based cybercriminal group in phishing emails sent to defense and government entities in Europe and North America.

Microsoft, Zero Day

RedDriver Abuses Windows Driver Policy Loophole

An undocumented malicious driver called RedDriver uses an open-source tool to forge signature timestamps, as a way to bypass Microsoft’s Windows driver signature enforcement policies.

Windows, Microsoft