Articles from July 2026
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Fake Microsoft Alerts Surge: 23% of All Brand Phishing Attacks Now Target Windows and Outlook Users
Microsoft has become the single most impersonated brand in phishing attacks, accounting for 23% of all brand phishing attempts in the second quarter of 2026, according to new data from Check Point...
72 Domains Masquerading as Popular Windows Apps Are Setting a Patient Trap
In late July 2026, the developer behind the Windows customization tool Wintoys uncovered a sprawling network of 72 domains that impersonate legitimate software — including Microsoft PowerToys,...
Why Ukraine’s MAGURA Drone Boats Are Being Built in America Now
On July 21, 2026, Ukrainian defense firm UFORCE and Oregon-based boatbuilder RECONCRAFT signed a memorandum of understanding that will bring the combat-proven MAGURA family of unmanned surface...
Copilot’s Reliability Is Tied to the News Sources It Cites—Here’s What Windows Users Should Know
A new study from the UK quantifies something many Windows users may have sensed intuitively: the credibility of an AI-generated answer isn’t just about how fluent or confident it sounds. It’s...
Malvertising campaign on Bing delivers SectopRAT malware through fake claude.ai download page.
In late July 2026, anyone searching Bing for the Claude Desktop app could have clicked a paid ad that displayed Anthropic's genuine domain—claude.ai—and landed on a page that looked like the...
Microsoft Patches Windows 11 Flaw That Exposed Passkey Authentication Data
Microsoft has quietly fixed a Windows 11 vulnerability that inadvertently recorded sensitive passkey authentication data inside event logs, a flaw that could have given attackers a path to elevated...
Why Microsoft 365 Storage Optimization Is Now a Board-Level Copilot Priority
Microsoft 365 administrators have been handed a new mandate: storage optimization must expand from a simple capacity management task into a disciplined data lifecycle strategy. The driver is...
Karnataka’s Cautious AI Bet: How Two Working Groups Will Test Anthropic’s Tech in Public Services
Karnataka’s Home and IT&BT Minister Priyank M. Kharge walked out of Anthropic’s Bengaluru office last week with no flashy AI chatbot to unveil. Instead, the state government committed to...
Microsoft Store 'Server Stumbled' Error 0x801901F7: What's Causing It and How to Get Back Online
Users across Windows 10 and Windows 11 are running into Microsoft Store error 0x801901F7, accompanied by the message “The Server Stumbled. We all have bad days.” The error, which corresponds to...
Microsoft's Quiet Reminder: Windows 11's Touch Keyboard Is a Canvas, Not Just a Gray Slab
On July 26, 2026, a Microsoft Support tweet surfaced with a screenshot of a brightly themed touch keyboard and a simple message: "On-screen keyboards don't need to be gray." The post, reported by...
CVE-2026-16461 Exposes Windows WSL to Remote Crashes: Here's the Fix
On July 27, 2026, Microsoft published CVE-2026-16461—a flaw in the Linux rpcinfo utility that can crash the tool when it processes malicious replies from a remote RPC server. While the...
Linux Admins: CVE-2026-64530 Is a 9.8-Severity RED Queuing Flaw—Patch Your Kernel Now
A critical use-after-free vulnerability lurking in the Linux kernel’s traffic-control subsystem received a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8, the highest severity rating, after being disclosed on July 26,...