The Information Highway

The Information Highway

New WordPress backdoor creates rogue admin to hijack websites

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A new malware has been posing as a legitimate caching plugin to target WordPress sites, allowing threat actors to create an administrator account and control the site's activity. 

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Microsoft Defender now auto-isolates compromised accounts

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now uses automatic attack disruption to isolate compromised user accounts and block lateral movement in hands-on-keyboard attacks with the help of a new 'contain user' capability in public preview. 

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Exchange Online mail delivery issues caused by anti-spam rules

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Microsoft is investigating Exchange Online mail delivery issues causing "Server busy" errors and delays when receiving emails from outside organizations. 

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Microsoft: State hackers exploiting Confluence zero-day since September

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Microsoft says a Chinese-backed threat group tracked as 'Storm-0062' (aka DarkShadow or Oro0lxy) has been exploiting a critical privilege escalation zero-day in the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server since September 14, 2023. 

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LinkedIn Smart Links attacks return to target Microsoft accounts

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Hackers are once again abusing LinkedIn Smart Links in phishing attacks to bypass protection measures and evade detection in attempts to steal Microsoft account credentials. 

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