Cybersecurity
The latest Cybersecurity coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Google Gemini Exploit Can Control Smart Homes, as Nvidia Rejects Government Backdoor Demands
A simple "thank you" is all it takes for attackers to hijack Google's Gemini AI and control your smart home, researchers revealed at Black Hat this week. The demonstration, which showed how a...
CVE-2025-53786: The Silent Hybrid Exchange Exploit That Bypasses All Cloud Defenses
Microsoft has issued an urgent warning about a high-severity vulnerability in hybrid Exchange deployments that could let attackers who breach an on-premises server silently escalate their privileges...
Microsoft’s Autonomous AI Agent Project Ire Nails 90% Malware Detection Accuracy
Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on Project Ire, an autonomous artificial intelligence agent that reverse-engineers and classifies suspicious software without human intervention—and in its...
Satya Nadella’s 2021 Meeting with Unit 8200 Head Enabled Azure-Powered Mass Surveillance in Gaza, Investigation Shows
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella personally met with the head of Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit in 2021 to greenlight a cloud-powered mass surveillance system that now captures and stores...
Microsoft AI Cuts BPO Service Desk Inquiries by 70% as Accenture Saves 30% IT Demand
Major business process outsourcing (BPO) firms are leveraging Microsoft’s AI stack to automate away millions of repetitive tasks, slash operational costs, and elevate their strategic role in global...
Microsoft Azure Stored 200 Million Hours of Palestinian Calls for Israel's Unit 8200
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform stored approximately 11,500 terabytes of data for Israel’s secretive Unit 8200—the equivalent of 200 million hours of phone calls—mostly from Palestinians in...
The 2025 Email Security Shift: Why Proofpoint, Mimecast, and Others Are Replacing Microsoft EOP
Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) has been the default email security gatekeeper for millions of businesses, but in 2025, a growing number of organizations are finding its basic defenses...
Windows 10’s October 2025 Deadline: How Channel Partners Are Rescuing Enterprises Stuck on the Upgrade Fence
October 14, 2025, will mark the end of an era for millions of Windows PCs still running the decade-old operating system. That’s the date Microsoft pulls the plug on free security patches, technical...
Tenable Unveils AI Exposure: New Module Secures ChatGPT and Copilot in Enterprises
Tenable has launched a private customer preview of Tenable AI Exposure, a new module within its Tenable One platform engineered to give organizations visibility and control over generative AI tools...
Microsoft's Azure Cloud Powers Israel's Unit 8200 Mass Surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft Azure has been secretly providing the computational muscle behind Israel's military intelligence unit's massive surveillance operation, which intercepts and stores millions of Palestinian...
How CEWA Backed Up 90,000 Microsoft 365 Accounts in Under 40 Minutes
Forty minutes. That’s all it took for Catholic Education Western Australia to deploy an enterprise-grade backup solution protecting over 90,000 Microsoft 365 accounts and more than a petabyte of...
Exchange Hybrid Attack Turns On-Prem Admin into Cloud Hijacker: CVE-2025-53786 Exposes Identity Perimeter Crisis
A single compromised on-premises Exchange administrator can now seize control of an organization’s entire Microsoft 365 cloud—for up to 24 hours, with virtually no audit trail. That is the urgent...