A campaign against Microsoft 365 users leverages Quantum Route Redirection, which simplifies previously technical attack steps and has affected victims across 90 countries.

Google has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Lighthouse that has ensnared over 1 million users across 120 countries. The PhaaS kit is used to conduct large-scale SMS phishing attacks that exploit…

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Amazon’s threat intelligence team on Wednesday disclosed that it observed an advanced threat actor exploiting two then-zero-day security flaws in Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and Citrix NetScaler ADC products as part of attacks designed to deliver custom malware. “This discovery highlights the trend of threat actors focusing on critical identity and network access control…

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Active Directory remains the authentication backbone for over 90% of Fortune 1000 companies. AD’s importance has grown as companies adopt hybrid and cloud infrastructure, but so has its complexity. Every application, user, and device traces back to AD for authentication and authorization, making it the ultimate target. For attackers, it represents the holy grail: compromise Active

Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for 63 new security vulnerabilities identified in its software, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, four are rated Critical and 59 are rated Important in severity. Twenty-nine of these vulnerabilities are related to privilege escalation, followed by 16 remote code execution,…

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new privacy-enhancing technology called Private AI Compute to process artificial intelligence (AI) queries in a secure platform in the cloud. The company said it has built Private AI Compute to “unlock the full speed and power of Gemini cloud models for AI experiences, while ensuring your personal data stays private…

Security teams may have a less burdensome rollout in November after October’s Goliath Patch Tuesday, but shouldn’t wait on a few top-priority fixes.