Security Awareness
The latest Security Awareness 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...
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...
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...
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...
How Link Wrapping Enables Sophisticated Phishing Attacks on Microsoft 365 and What Organizations Can Do
In an era where digital trust serves as both the scaffolding and the Achilles' heel of business productivity, the latest wave of phishing attacks on Microsoft 365 reveals just how brittle even our...
Microsoft 365 Direct Send Exploitation: Analyzing the Rise of Internal Phishing Attacks
Phishing, once typified by crude email scams and glaring grammatical missteps, has evolved with ruthless efficiency in today’s cloud-first workplaces. Nowhere is this threat more acute than in...
The Evolution of Cloud Phishing: Microsoft OAuth Exploitation and AI-Driven Attacks
Phishing campaigns in the cloud era have undergone a fundamental evolution, leveraging both novel attack surfaces and the expanded reach of cloud identity management systems. Nowhere is this...
Evolving Microsoft OAuth Phishing Threats: Strategies to Combat MFA Bypass and Phishing-as-a-Service
Phishing campaigns have long plagued organizations, but the latest wave targeting Microsoft’s OAuth ecosystem marks a watershed moment in both technique and risk. The arms race between attackers...
2025 Cloud Security Crisis: Microsoft OAuth Phishing Bypasses MFA in Industrialized Cyberattacks
Cloud security defenders in 2025 face their most formidable challenge yet: a global surge of cyberattacks weaponizing Microsoft OAuth to reliably bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). While...