Cybersecurity
The latest Cybersecurity coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Mitigating Phishing Attacks Exploiting Microsoft 365 Direct Send and SMTP Relay Vulnerabilities
Phishing attacks leveraging Microsoft 365’s Direct Send feature and unsecured SMTP relays are rapidly evolving, presenting significant risks for organizations across sectors. As cybercriminals...
How Cybercriminals Exploit Link Wrapping to Launch Sophisticated Microsoft 365 Phishing Attacks
Just as organizations have started to place their trust in security technologies designed to make email safer, a transformative threat has emerged that subverts these very foundations. Cybercriminals...
Rising Cyber Threats Exploit Email Link Wrapping Vulnerabilities in Microsoft 365
A sudden spike in sophisticated cyberattacks is shaking the foundations of email security for businesses leveraging Microsoft 365. Recent investigations have revealed an alarming vulnerability within...
How Link Wrapping in Microsoft 365 Emails Became a Double-Edged Sword in Advanced Phishing Attacks
Cloudflare’s recent analysis of a wave of advanced phishing attacks targeting Microsoft 365 users has sent shockwaves across the cybersecurity community, exposing paradoxes at the heart of modern...
Microsoft’s 2025 Strategy: Dominance in Cloud, AI, and Software Amid Market and Regulatory Challenges
Microsoft’s position at the crossroads of software, cloud, and artificial intelligence is both a testament to its enduring resilience and a signal of the rapid evolution permeating the global tech...
Sophisticated Microsoft 365 Phishing Attacks: Exploiting Security Features from Within
The digital arms race between cyber defenders and adversaries has reached a new inflection point, one that rattles the very foundations of trust in modern email and identity security. For Microsoft...
Thorium: CISA's Open-Source Malware Analysis Platform Revolutionizing Cybersecurity
In the fast-evolving world of cybersecurity, the demand for effective and accessible malware analysis tools has never been greater. As threats grow in sophistication and attackers leverage...
Phishing Attacks Weaponize Trusted Email Security Tools: A 2025 Cybersecurity Warning
The cybersecurity landscape has entered a new era, marked by an insidious twist: the very tools enterprises rely on to protect against phishing and credential theft are now being weaponized by...
Microsoft Acknowledges U.S. Access to EU Data Centers, Raising Data Sovereignty Concerns
In a pivotal moment for global data privacy, Microsoft has acknowledged its inability to guarantee that data stored in European Union (EU) data centers is immune from access by U.S. authorities. This...
PETRONAS and Microsoft Partner to Drive Malaysia’s AI-Powered Digital and Sustainable Future
Malaysia’s drive toward a digitally powered, sustainable future has reached a significant new milestone with the announcement of a wide-ranging collaboration between PETRONAS and Microsoft. The...
Exploiting Link Wrapping: The New Frontier in Enterprise Phishing Attacks
As email remains both the backbone and the Achilles’ heel of the modern digital enterprise, the battlefield between cyber defenders and inventive attackers has never been more treacherous. The...
How Cybercriminals Exploit Trusted Email Security to Breach Microsoft 365
Cybercriminal activity is propelling a seismic change in the security calculus for organizations using Microsoft 365, with attackers now audaciously subverting the very email security mechanisms that...