The Information Highway

The Information Highway

Embargo ransomware escalates attacks to cloud environments

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Microsoft warns that ransomware threat actor Storm-0501 has recently switched tactics and now targets hybrid cloud environments, expanding its strategy to compromise all victim assets. 

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CISA tags Microsoft SharePoint RCE bug as actively exploited

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CISA warns that attackers are now exploiting a Microsoft SharePoint code injection vulnerability that can be chained with a critical privilege escalation flaw for pre-auth remote code execution attacks.

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Microsoft: Outlook clients not syncing over Exchange ActiveSync

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Microsoft warned Outlook for Microsoft 365 users that clients might have issues connecting to email servers via Exchange ActiveSync after a January update.


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Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays.


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Box cloud storage down amid 'critical' outage

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Cloud storage provider Box is down in a 'critical' outage, preventing customers from accessing their files. 

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Microsoft fixes ‘Something Went Wrong’ Office sign-in errors

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Microsoft is rolling out fixes for known Microsoft 365 issues causing 'Something Went Wrong [1001]' sign-in errors and rendering desktop applications unusable for many customers. 

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Microsoft confirms Copilot AI assistant coming to Windows 10

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Microsoft will roll out the Copilot AI-powered assistant to Windows 10 systems enrolled in the Insider Program over the coming months. 

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Microsoft 365 users get workaround for ‘Something Went Wrong’ errors

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Microsoft shared a workaround for a known Microsoft 365 issue triggering 'Something Went Wrong [1001]' sign-in errors and making desktop applications unusable for many customers. 

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Cloudflare sees surge in hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks

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Cloudflare says the number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks recorded in the third quarter of 2023 surpasses every previous year, indicating that the threat landscape has entered a new chapter. 

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Amazon's AWS SSM agent can be used as post-exploitation RAT malware

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Researchers have discovered a new post-exploitation technique in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows hackers to use the platform's System Manager (SSM) agent as an undetectable Remote Access Trojan (RAT). 

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