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I spent years on the offensive side of security performing red and purple team assessments, bypassing controls that GRC teams, and often times even auditors, were convinced were working. Spoiler: it was rarely as difficult as it should have been. Not because those teams were careless, but because they were measured against a system that […]

Update 7/23/26 9:55 PM ET: Article updated that the outage has been resolved. Microsoft is impacted by a massive outage affecting Teams and Microsoft 365 services, primarily affecting users in North America. At 11:11 AM ET on July 23, Downdetector recorded 2,403 reports, sharply above its normal baseline of 29. SharePoint accounted for 78% of

Ukraine’s CERT has uncovered attacks distributing an archive containing the legitimate Notepad++ application and a malicious utility called LunchPoke disguised as a plugin to establish persistence. The campaign has been attributed to a threat cluster tracked as UAC-0099, which primarily targets organizations in Ukraine and has previously been linked to providing initial access for attacks

CISA is warning that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is targeting organizations using Zimbra Collaboration email servers by combining phishing attacks with the exploitation of a now-patched Zimbra vulnerability. According to CISA, Laundry Bear has targeted and compromised users in organizations associated with the Defense Industrial Base (DIB),

A malvertising campaign on the Bing search service is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer hosted on a legitimate Claude.ai domain to deliver the SectopRAT malware. At least 29 organizations were compromised between July 21-22 during the malicious operation, which researchers call FakeAgent. The attacker uses a malicious Claude Artifact hosted on Claude’s legitimate

Australian energy provider Origin Energy has confirmed a data breach by an unknown threat actor that exposed customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). The company has 4.8 million customers and is currently investigating how many of them have been impacted to inform them of the risk via individual notifications. Origin Energy is Australia’s largest energy retailer,

A new Dolphin X remote access trojan claims to use an AI-powered profiling feature to score and rank infected users, helping cybercriminals identify which victims should be targeted first. The malware was analyzed by Varonis Threat Labs researcher Daniel Kelley, who spotted it being advertised on a cybercrime forum by a vendor using the alias