Botnet Backdoors Microsoft Exchange Servers, Mines Cryptocurrency Unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are being targeted by the Prometei botnet and added to its operators’ army of Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency mining bots. This modular malware can infect both Windows and Linux systems, and it was first spotted last year while using the EternalBlue exploit to spread Read more…
Exchange Online Down: Microsoft 365 Outage Affects Email Delivery A Microsoft 365 outage is preventing Exchange Online users from sending and receiving emails, with messages being stuck in transit and not reaching the recipients’ inboxes. “We’re investigating a potential issue with Exchange Online mailflow in North America,” Microsoft shared on the company’s Microsoft Read more…
Microsoft Autoruns Is Crashing When Listing Windows 10 Startups A recent update to Microsoft’s Sysinternals Autoruns program is causing the program to crash as its scans for autostarts in Windows. For those not familiar with Autoruns, it is a free utility from Microsoft that enumerates all the programs that automatically Read more…
Microsoft Partially Fixes Windows 7, Server 2008 Vulnerability Microsoft has silently issued a partial fix for a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices. This LPE vulnerability (not yet officially tracked using a CVE ID) stems from the misconfiguration of two service registry Read more…
Fake Microsoft Store, Spotify Sites Spread Info-Stealing Malware Attackers are promoting sites impersonating the Microsoft Store, Spotify, and an online document converter that distribute malware to steal credit cards and passwords saved in web browsers. The attack was discovered by cybersecurity firm ESET who issued a warning yesterday on Twitter to be on the lookout Read more…
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Taskbar News Feed Ported To Older Versions Microsoft is backporting their upcoming Windows 10 News and Interests taskbar feature to Windows 10 20H2 and Windows 10 21H1, allowing far more people to access the new feature. In January, Microsoft began testing a new taskbar news feed feature called ‘News Read more…
Microsoft Disables Google’s FLoC Tracking In Microsoft Edge, For Now Microsoft has disabled Google’s controversial FLoC browser-based tracking feature in their Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. This month, Google began testing a new tracking platform called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, that places users in anonymous buckets, or cohorts, based on their interest Read more…
Microsoft Edge’s Update Server Is Down – Shows Error Code 7 Microsoft Edge’s update server is suffering a worldwide outage preventing users from updating to the newly released version 90 of the web browser. Yesterday, Microsoft released Edge 90 with new features, such as a Kids Mode, the new download flyout, Read more…
Microsoft Edge’s New Kids Mode Is Now Rolling Out To Everyone Microsoft Edge’s new child-friendly ‘Kids Mode’ is now generally available and has begun rolling out to users in the USA. In February, Microsoft announced a new child-friendly Kids Mode designed for children between the ages of 5-8 and 9-12 that provides Read more…
Microsoft Moves Windows 10 21H1 To The Release Preview Channel Microsoft is now installing the Windows 10 21H1 build in the Release preview channel, indicating that it will likely be released later this month or in May. Windows 10 21H1 is the next feature update to be released and delivered Read more…
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