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Microsoft Confirms Breach In SolarWinds Hack, Denies Infecting Others Microsoft has confirmed that they were hacked in the recent SolarWinds attacks but denied that their software was compromised in a supply-chain attack to infect customers. This past weekend it was discovered that Russian state-sponsored hackers breached SolarWinds and used their auto-update mechanism to distribute a backdoor to clients. This
Malicious Chrome, Edge Extensions With 3M Installs Still In Stores Malicious Chrome and Edge browser extensions with over 3 million installs, most of them still available on the Chrome Web Store and the Microsoft Edge Add-ons portal, are capable of stealing users’ info and redirecting them to phishing sites. The malware-laced extensions found by Avast Threat Intelligence researchers
FireEye, Microsoft Create Kill Switch For SolarWinds Backdoor Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy have collaborated to create a kill switch for the SolarWinds Sunburst backdoor that forces the malware to terminate itself. This past weekend it was revealed that Russian state-sponsored hackers breached SolarWinds and added malicious code to a Windows DLL file used by their Orion IT monitoring
Microsoft Authenticator Brings Password Autofill To Mobile Devices Microsoft has released a new version of Microsoft Authenticator that now acts as a password manager for Android and iOS. With this new feature, you can now autofill credentials into websites and apps that were saved via Authenticator or Microsoft Edge’s built-in password manager to your Microsoft