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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 134 Vulnerabilities, Including 1 Zero-Day

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 134 Vulnerabilities, Including 1 Zero-Day

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Image: Microsoft News Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security update for April included 134 flaws, one of which is an actively exploited zero-day flaw. The security patches for Windows 10 were unavailable when the Windows 11 patches were released. The Windows 10 patches have since arrived, but the delay was unusual. Tyler Reguly, associate director of security R&D at global cybersecurity software and services provider Fortra, suggested in an email to TechRepublic that…

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Microsoft: Windows CLFS Vulnerability Could Lead to ‘Widespread Deployment and Detonation of Ransomware'

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Microsoft: Windows CLFS Vulnerability Could Lead to ‘Widespread Deployment and Detonation of Ransomware'

Image: nicescene/Adobe Stock Microsoft has detected a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) being exploited in the wild to deploy ransomware. Target industries include IT, real estate, finance, software, and retail, with companies based in the US, Spain, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29824 and rated “important,” is present in the CLFS kernel driver. It allows an attacker who already has standard user access to a system to…

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Android Malware Exploits a Microsoft-Related Security Blind Spot to Avoid Detection

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Android Malware Exploits a Microsoft-Related Security Blind Spot to Avoid Detection

This Motorola Moto G Power 5G shows the midnight blue color option. Image: Amazon New Android malware is using Microsoft’s .NET MAUI to fly under the radar in a new cybersecurity dust-up this week. Disguised as actual services such as banking and social media apps targeting Indian and Chinese-speaking users, the malware is designed to gain access to sensitive information. Cybersecurity experts with McAfee’s Mobile Research Team say that, while the threat is currently aimed…

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The Human Factor: Redefining Cybersecurity In The Age Of AI

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The Human Factor: Redefining Cybersecurity In The Age Of AI

With 74% of breaches starting with people, securing the human layer is cybersecurity’s most urgent … More priority. getty It is a common mantra in cybersecurity that humans are the weakest link. It’s a notion I often push back on, because it is generally used as a sort of tacit excuse for why cybersecurity tools or processes fail, but there is also an element of truth to it. One of the key takeaways from Verizon’s…

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 57 Security Flaws

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 57 Security Flaws

Image: Microsoft News Microsoft just dropped its March 2025 Patch Tuesday update, which includes 57 fixes though closer to 70 with third-party vulnerabilities included. The update addresses some critical security issues that require immediate attention, including the following six zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers are actively exploiting. CVE-2025-26633: A security hole in Microsoft Management Console that lets hackers bypass normal protections. They typically trick you into opening a specially designed file or website through email or…

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Data Theft Drove 94% of Cyberattacks in 2024

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Microsoft: Windows CLFS Vulnerability Could Lead to ‘Widespread Deployment and Detonation of Ransomware'

Data theft accounted for 94% of all cyber attacks worldwide in 2024, according to new research, as cybercriminals increasingly combine data exfiltration with encryption in ransomware campaigns. Beyond encryption, ransomware attackers now threaten to leak or sell a company’s data on the dark web if victims refuse to pay. Stolen information often includes personally identifiable data and proprietary intellectual property. The findings come from BlackFog’s 2024 Ransomware Trend Report, which analysed ransomware activity across hundreds…

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Darktrace: 96% of Phishing Attacks in 2024 Exploited Trusted Domains

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Darktrace: 96% of Phishing Attacks in 2024 Exploited Trusted Domains

Threat actors are increasingly targeting trusted business platforms such as Dropbox, SharePoint, and QuickBooks in their phishing email campaigns and leveraging legitimate domains to bypass security measures, a new report released today has found. By embedding sender addresses or payload links within legitimate domains, attackers evade traditional detection methods and deceive unsuspecting users. According to Darktrace’s Annual Threat Report 2024, the authors detected more than 30.4 million phishing emails, reinforcing phishing as the preferred attack…

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CISA Adds Four Vulnerabilities to Catalog for Federal Enterprise

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CISA Adds Four Vulnerabilities to Catalog for Federal Enterprise

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Microsoft Will Remove the Free VPN That Comes With Windows Defender

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Microsoft Will Remove the Free VPN That Comes With Windows Defender

As of Feb. 28, Microsoft Defender customers will lose access to the VPN that came with the subscription. Billed as “the privacy protection feature,” the VPN included in the subscription isolated Microsoft 365 applications for additional security. It was released in 2023. Why did Microsoft remove the VPN feature? “Our goal is to ensure you, and your family remain safer online,” an anonymous Microsoft employee wrote in the end-of-support notification. “We routinely evaluate the usage…

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DeepSeek Chatbot Beats OpenAI on App Store Leaderboard

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DeepSeek Chatbot Beats OpenAI on App Store Leaderboard

Over the weekend, Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an AI chat app including a “reasoning” AI model comparable to OpenAI’s o1, causing a stir among American AI companies as DeepSeek rose to the top of Apple’s App Store. DeepSeek is a Hangzhou, China-based company providing generative AI models and AI integration. Its first products to make waves in the American market are the GPT-4-like DeepSeek-V3 and R1, an advanced “reasoning model.” Like ChatGPT, DeepSeek-V3 and…

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