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Ransomware has evolved into a deceptive, highly coordinated and dangerously sophisticated threat capable of crippling organizations of any size. Cybercriminals now exploit even legitimate IT tools to infiltrate networks and launch ransomware attacks. In a chilling example, Microsoft recently disclosed how threat actors misused its Quick Assist remote assistance tool to deploy the destructive

**How can I verify that the update is installed?** Customers wanting to ensure the client has been updated can run the MDE Client Analyzer on the device. When running the analyzer on a Windows device that does not have the security update, the analyzer will present a warning (ID 121035) indicating missing patch and directing to relevant online article. Additionally, if the update is installed, but the Anti-Spoofing capability is not in a stable state, the analyzer will present warning (ID 121036) indicating an issue and providing additional online guidance or callout to reach out to Microsoft support if issue persists.

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 70 vulnerabilities in Windows and related products, including five zero-day flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Adding to the sense of urgency with this month's patch batch from Redmond are fixes for two other weaknesses that now have public proof-of-concept exploits available.

Microsoft on Tuesday shipped fixes to address a total of 78 security flaws across its software lineup, including a set of five zero-days that have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 78 flaws resolved by the tech giant, 11 are rated Critical, 66 are rated Important, and one is rated Low in severity. Twenty-eight of these vulnerabilities lead to remote code execution, 21 of them

May Microsoft Patch Tuesday. A total of 93 vulnerabilities – about 1.5 times fewer than in April. Of these, 22 were added between the April and May MSPT. There are 5 vulnerabilities show signs of in-the-wild exploitation: 🔻 EoP – Microsoft DWM Core Library (CVE-2025-30400)🔻 EoP – Windows CLFS Driver (CVE-2025-32701, CVE-2025-32706)🔻 EoP – Windows […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are revolutionizing the industry, impacting healthcare, finance services, national security and autonomous systems. As part of this revolution, organizations are increasingly moving their AI workloads to the cloud, taking advantage of its scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Of course this transition to the cloud brings new challenges around data privacy, intellectual property and regulation compliance. Existing virtual machines (VMs) provide isolation between workloads, but they cannot protect workloads from privileged users and software com

# Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-26646: .NET Spoofing Vulnerability ## <a name="executive-summary"></a>Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 9.0.xxx and .NET 8.0.xxx SDK. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to address this vulnerability. A vulnerability exists in .NET SDK or MSBuild applications where external control of file name or path allows an unauthorized attacked to perform spoofing over a network. ## Discussion Discussion for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/11846 ### <a name="mitigation-factors"></a>Mitigation factors Projects which do not utilize the [DownloadFile](https://learn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/msbuild/downloadfile-task) build task are not susceptible to this vulnerability. ## <a name="affected-software"></a>Affected software * Any installation of .NET 9.0.105 SDK, .NET 9.0.203 SDK ...

Microsoft has released its monthly security update for May of 2025 which includes 78 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 11 that Microsoft marked as “critical”.   Microsoft noted five vulnerabilities that have been observed to be exploited in the wild. CVE-2025-30397 is a remote code

A new extra-secure mode for Android 16 will let at-risk users lock their devices down.

Popular student engagement platform iClicker’s website was compromised with a ClickFix attack. A fake “I’m not a robot”…