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Microsoft PowerToys Breaks Outlook PDF Preview Microsoft says the Outlook PDF preview feature might be broken for some Microsoft 365 customers on systems where the company’s PowerToys open-source toolset is also installed. “In Outlook, when you attempt to preview a PDF attachment in an email you see the following error: This file cannot be previewed Read more…

Microsoft Fixes Bluetooth Issue Causing Windows Blue Screens Microsoft has fixed a known Bluetooth issue causing some Windows 10 systems to crash with a blue screen of death (BSODs) after installing the January KB5009596 cumulative update. Microsoft addressed the issue with the release of the optional KB5011543 Preview cumulative update.  It most likely only Read more…

Microsoft Confirms they were Hacked by Lapsus$ Extortion Group Microsoft has confirmed that one of their employees was compromised by the Lapsus$ hacking group, allowing the threat actors to access and steal portions of their source code. Last night, the Lapsus$ gang released 37GB of source code stolen from Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Read more…

Microsoft Investigating Claims of Hacked Source Code Repositories Microsoft says they are investigating claims that the Lapsus$ data extortion hacking group breached their internal Azure DevOps source code repositories and stolen data. Unlike many extortion groups we read about today, Lapsus$ does not deploy ransomware on their victim’s devices. Instead, Read more…

Microsoft Reminds of Internet Explorer’s Looming Demise in June Microsoft has reminded Windows customers today that they’ll finally retire the Internet Explorer 11 web browser from some Windows 10 versions in June and replace it with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. After Internet Explorer is retired, Microsoft will still support legacy Read more…

Unsecured Microsoft SQL, MySQL Servers Hit by Gh0stCringe Malware Hackers target poorly secured Microsoft SQL and MySQL database servers to deploy the Gh0stCringe remote access trojans on vulnerable devices. Gh0stCringe, aka CirenegRAT, is a variant of Gh0st RAT malware that was most recently deployed in 2020 Chinese cyber-espionage operations but dates as Read more…

Microsoft Defender Tags Office Updates as Ransomware Activity Windows admins were hit today by a wave of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint false positives where Office updates were tagged as malicious in alerts pointing to ransomware behavior detected on their systems. According to Windows system admins reports [1, 2, 3, 4], this started happening several Read more…

Microsoft is Testing Ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer Microsoft has begun testing promotions for some of its other products in the File Explorer app on devices running its latest Windows 11 Insider build. The new Windows 11 “feature” was discovered by a Windows user and Insider MVP who shared a Read more…

Microsoft Removes Windows 11 Update Block for VirtualBox Users Microsoft has removed the last Windows 11 safeguard hold after Oracle addressed a known VirtualBox issue causing errors and virtual machine start failures when Hyper-V or the Windows Hypervisor were installed. Safeguard holds prevent users from upgrading to Windows 11 to protect their systems Read more…

Microsoft confirms Intune enrollment issue on Android Devices Microsoft has confirmed a new known issue causing Microsoft Intune enrollment problems on some Android devices after upgrading from Android 11 to Android 12. Customers impacted by this issue have also reported losing access to Microsoft Intune-managed resources after the upgrade process Read more…