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Microsoft disables macros to curtail Malware Cyber Attacks
Microsoft has made it official that it has disabled macros across its office products to block malware cyber attacks. The tech giant announced officially that from now on the macros feature in the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) running across Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Visio will be in disabled form and will have to […]
Microsoft stops 3.7 Tbps DDoS Cyber Attack in history
Microsoft, the tech giant of America, has announced that it has blocked probably the world’s largest DDoS cyber attack observed to date. As per the details available to our Cybersecurity Insiders, the distributed denial of service attack (Ddos) was massive, hitting 3.7 terabytes per second on scale aka delivering over 340 million packets per second […]
How to turn on ransomware protection on Microsoft Windows 10
To all those Windows 10 Operating System (OS) users, here’s a piece of advice that will help in protecting your PC from ransomware. Microsoft has offered a 2-layer protection by default on all the systems running on Win 10 OS to help keep the file encrypting malware at bay. First is the regular malware scanning […]
Microsoft warns of dreaded data wiping malware campaign
Microsoft has issued an official warning to all IT and not-for-profit organizations, along with some critical government organizations across Ukraine, that their digital infrastructure could be targeted by a dreaded data wiping malware campaign. WhisperGate, currently the name given to the information wiping campaign was launched on January 13th,2022 on Ukraine, just before most of […]
Microsoft reveals a serious vulnerability hidden in its Azure Cloud
Microsoft, the technology giant of America, has warned all its users that there is a hidden vulnerability hidden in an Azure cloud that could leak user data to hackers. Wiz.io that is into the business of providing security to cloud users was the first to inform Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC) about the hidden bug […]
Microsoft and its Passwordless Authentication on Windows 11
Microsoft Windows 11 Passwordless Authentication will fail, say, experts from WatchGuard Threat Lab. The analysis was done when the American tech giant announced it is going to remove the password based logins entirely from its platform in the next couple of years. It is a fact that the Satya Nadella led company is planning to […]
Microsoft shuts down 42 cyber spying Chinese websites
Microsoft has shut down 42 websites that were related to Chinese intelligence and were indulging in espionage and intelligence gathering. The tech giant has made it official that the websites that were pulled down were found targeting politicians, think tanks, individuals linked to human right organizations from US and across the world. The Satya Nadella […]
BlackByte Ransomware found exploiting ProxyShell vulnerabilities
Proxy Shell vulnerabilities identified in Microsoft Exchange Servers are being exploited by hackers operating and distributing a new ransomware variant dubbed BlackByte. A new report published by cyber threat detection firm Red Canary clearly states that hackers are being able to exploit the three bugs identified in Microsoft Exchange Servers that are combinedly called as […]
Microsoft servers facing Iranian Cyber Threat
In a joint statement released by United States, Britain and Australia, it was revealed that Microsoft servers were facing constant cyber threat from Iran sponsored hacking groups. The law enforcement agencies from the said nations respectively issued a statement that a hacking group named Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) was constantly eyeing to infiltrate the network […]
Microsoft to offer cyber security training in community colleges across US
Microsoft has announced that it is going to offer cyber security training to interested students who are studying in community colleges across the United States. To reach its aim, the American tech giant has announced that it is going to invest millions of dollars on nurturing new talent to fill 250,000 jobs lying vacant in […]
