A critical security flaw in Microsoft Bing tracked as CVE-2025-21355, allowed unauthorized attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely, posing severe risks to organizations and users globally. The vulnerability, rooted in a missing authentication mechanism for a critical Bing function, enabled…
Darktrace Report Highlights the Growing Power of MaaS, Sneaky Evasion Tactics
Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) is more than just a trend—it’s here to stay. As sophisticated attack tools become widely (and easily) available, even less experienced cybercriminals can now carry out highly disruptive campaigns. In fact, Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) now makes up 57% of…
The Bourne Insecurity: When Defense Employees Unwittingly Help Attackers
A recent analysis by cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock on its Infostealers site has uncovered alarming vulnerabilities within the US military and its defense contractors due to widespread info stealer malware infections. According to the company, these infections have compromised sensitive…
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms
We are excited to announce that Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Physical Systems Protection Platforms. Gartner defines Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics” that connect the…
300% increase in endpoint malware detections
The third quarter of 2024 saw a dramatic shift in the types of malware detected at network perimeters, according to a new WatchGuard report. The report’s key findings include a 300% increase quarter over quarter of endpoint malware detections, highlighted…
Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Power Pages Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Microsoft has released security updates to address two Critical-rated flaws impacting Bing and Power Pages, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-21355 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Microsoft Bing Remote…
Citrix Releases Security Fix for NetScaler Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting NetScaler Console (formerly NetScaler ADM) and NetScaler Agent that could lead to privilege escalation under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12284, has been given a CVSS v4 score…
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms
We are excited to announce that Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Physical Systems Protection Platforms. Gartner defines Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics” that connect the…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-02-20 06h : 3 posts
3 posts were published in the last hour 4:32 : Windows Disk Cleanup Tool Vulnerability Exploited to Gain SYSTEM Privileges 4:32 : Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms 4:9 :…
Windows Disk Cleanup Tool Vulnerability Exploited to Gain SYSTEM Privileges
Microsoft has addressed a critical vulnerability in the Windows Disk Cleanup Tool (cleanmgr.exe) in the February 2025 Patch Tuesday security updates. Tracked as CVE-2025-21420, the vulnerability has a CVSS rating of 7.8 and could allow a threat actor to gain…
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms
We are excited to announce that Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Physical Systems Protection Platforms. Gartner defines Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics” that connect the…
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms
We are excited to announce that Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Physical Systems Protection Platforms. Gartner defines Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics” that connect the…
US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law
That’s the way the cookie melts A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people’s private call records.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: US Army…
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms
We are excited to announce that Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Physical Systems Protection Platforms. Gartner defines Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics” that connect the…
US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion admits breaking the law
That’s the way the cookie melts A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people’s private call records.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: US Army…
Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Allows Unauthorized Command Execution
Cloud Software Group issued urgent patches on February 18, 2025, for a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-12284) affecting its NetScaler Console (formerly NetScaler ADM) and NetScaler Agent. Rated 8.8 on the CVSS v4.0 scale, the flaw enables authenticated attackers to execute unauthorized…
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms
We are excited to announce that Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Physical Systems Protection Platforms. Gartner defines Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics” that connect the…
Using ES|QL in Kibana to Queries DShield Honeypot Logs, (Thu, Feb 20th)
With the Elastic released of version 8.17.0, it included “The technical preview of new MATCH and query string (QSTR) functions in ES|QL makes log searches easier and more intuitive.”[1] With this released, I started exploring some of the many options…
DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. This article has been indexed from Security Latest Read the original article: DOGE Now Has Access…
Hackers Weaponize Jarsigner App To Execute XLoader Malware
Threat actors have been observed exploiting the legitimate Java Archive (JAR) signing tool jarsigner.exe to deploy the notorious XLoader malware, according to recent findings from the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC). This attack leverages DLL side-loading techniques to bypass security…
Critical Microsoft Bing Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Code Remotely
Microsoft has addressed a critical security flaw in its Bing search engine, tracked as CVE-2025-21355, which could have allowed unauthorized attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The vulnerability, classified as a Missing authentication for a Critical Function flaw, posed significant…
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms
We are excited to announce that Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Physical Systems Protection Platforms. Gartner defines Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics” that connect the…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, February 20th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9332, (Thu, Feb 20th)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Thursday, February 20th, 2025…
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for cyber-physical systems protection platforms
We are excited to announce that Gartner has named Microsoft a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Physical Systems Protection Platforms. Gartner defines Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics” that connect the…