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Ongoing Microsoft 365 Campaign Abuses ConnectWise App

Threat actors have compromised a credential within the vendor’s infrastructure, allowing them to abuse a client assertion that bypasses traditional user authentication.

DENNIS FISHER · OCT 18 · 3 min
Malware

Microsoft Uncovers New Malicious Campaign Targeting Developers

This campaign is an offshoot of the more familiar and pervasive fake job interview and phony tech worker scams that have been coming from North Korea for several years.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Microsoft

Cybercrime and APT Groups Exploiting WinRAR Bug

Exploitation of CVE-2025-8088 in the wild began before disclosure, with attacks confirmed as early as July 18, 2025.

Dennis Fisher · 4 min
Microsoft

Microsoft, Cloudflare Disrupt RaccoonO365 Phishing Kit Service

Microsoft and Cloudflare this week announced that they paired up to disrupt RaccoonO365, a phishing-as-a-service cybercriminal enterprise.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 3 min
Microsoft

Senator Flags Microsoft’s Role in the Ascension Ransomware Hack

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants the U.S. government to hold Microsoft responsible “for contributing to ransomware attacks against critical U.S. infrastructure” like Ascension.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 2 min
Microsoft

Microsoft Finds Secret Blizzard Targeting Foreign Diplomats

Microsoft has uncovered a long-running campaign by a threat group affiliated with Russian intelligence that has targeted diplomats working in Russia with a custom tool called ApolloShadow that enables the group to maintain persistence on victims’ devices as part of a cyberespionage operation. The group is known as Secret Blizzard and Microsoft’s researchers found that…

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
China

Chinese Attackers Target SharePoint CVE-2025-53770

Three separate Chinese threat groups are exploiting a set of recently disclosed vulnerabilities in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint installations, and Microsoft and CISA are urging companies that haven’t yet updated their installations to do so as quickly as possible.  Microsoft first published information about the two flaws (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771) on July 19 after seeing active…

Dennis Fisher · 1 min

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