Microsoft surpasses $10 billion in security business revenue, more than 40 percent year-over-year growth

I joined Microsoft a little more than six months ago—amid a global pandemic and a new norm of remote work, as well as one of the most rapidly evolving threat landscapes in history. We’ve witnessed more sophisticated attacks, like the recent SolarWinds incident, as well as an increase in attack...

Working Together with Our Customers to Build a Sustainable Future

By now, we hope you've read Monday's and Tuesday's blog posts announcing the release of our annual sustainability report, our sustainability program, and the technical innovation behind it...

Retrospective 2020: DDoS Risk Higher Than Ever

Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai customers attacked than any year on record -- an...

Russian Hacker Gets 12-Years Prison for Massive JP Morgan Chase Hack

A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old Russian to 12 years in prison for perpetrating an international hacking campaign that resulted in the heist of a trove of personal information from several financial institutions, brokerage firms, financial news publishers, and other American...

Hotfix XS82E010 - for Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

Who Should Install This Hotfix? This is a hotfix for customers running Citrix Hypervisor 8.2. All customers who are affected by the issues described inCTX285937 - Citrix Hypervisor Multiple Security Updatesshould install this hotfix. Information About this Hotfix Component| Details ---|---...

Juspay data breach 35 million customers’ card data sold on dark web

By Waqas The Indian startup Juspay handles payments for online marketplaces, including Amazon. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Juspay data breach 35 million customers card data sold on dark web...

21 WeLeakInfo customers arrested for buying breached data

By Deeba Ahmed The UK National Crime Agency NCA has arrested 21 individuals for buying breached data from now-defunct online service- WeLeakInfo dot com This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 21 WeLeakInfo customers arrested for buying breached data...

Nobelium Resource Center - updated March 4, 2021

UPDATE: Microsoft continues to work with partners and customers to expand our knowledge of the threat actor behind the nation-state cyberattacks that compromised the supply chain of SolarWinds and impacted multiple other organizations. Microsoft previously used ‘Solorigate’ as the primary...

Point of Sale System 1.0 - Multiple Stored XSS

Exploit Title: Point of Sale System 1.0 - Multiple Stored XSS Exploit Author: Saeed Bala Ahmed r0b0tG4nG Date: 2020-12-18 Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/9620/point-sale-system-pos.html Software Link:...

A Massive Fraud Operation Stole Millions From Online Accounts

The crooks used emulators to mimic the phones of more than 16,000 customers whose mobile bank accounts had been compromised...

Microsoft Caught Up in SolarWinds Spy Effort, Joining Federal Agencies

UPDATE Microsoft has become the latest victim of the ever-widening SolarWinds-driven cyberattack that has impacted rafts of federal agencies and tech targets. Its president, Brad Smith, warned late Thursday to expect many more victims to come to light as investigations continue. Adversaries were...

Ensuring customers are protected from Solorigate

Microsoft is monitoring a dynamic threat environment surrounding the discovery of a sophisticated attack that included compromised binaries from a legitimate software. These binaries, which are related to the SolarWinds Orion Platform, could be used by attackers to remotely access devices. We hav...

Nearly 18,000 SolarWinds Customers Installed Backdoored Software

SolarWinds, the enterprise monitoring software provider which found itself at the epicenter of the most consequential supply chain attacks, said as many as 18,000 of its high-profile customers might have installed a tainted version of its Orion products. The acknowledgment comes as part of a new...

Nearly 18,000 SolarWinds Customers Installed Backdoored Software

SolarWinds, the enterprise monitoring software provider which found itself at the epicenter of the most consequential supply chain attacks, said as many as 18,000 of its high-profile customers might have installed a tainted version of its Orion products. The acknowledgment comes as part of a new...

Hackers steal sensitive client data in Israeli insurance firm data breach

By Deeba Ahmed BlackShadow hackers took responsibility for the attack and leaked the data online belonging to Shirbit's customers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers steal sensitive client data in Israeli insurance firm data breach...

WordPress Import and export users and customers plugin <= 1.16.3.5 - CSV Injection vulnerability

CSV Injection vulnerability found by Mohamad Pishdar cert.ikiu.ac.ir in WordPress Import and export users and customers plugin versions = 1.16.3.5. Solution Update the WordPress Import and export users and customers plugin to the latest available version at least 1.16.3.5...

Hotfix XS80E002 for Citrix Hypervisor 8.0

Who Should Install This Hotfix? This is a hotfix for customers running Citrix Hypervisor 8.0. All customers who are affected by the issues described inCTX256725 - Citrix Hypervisor Multiple Security Updatesshould install this hotfix. Information About this Hotfix Component| Details ---|---...

Gartner names Microsoft a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers

The past few months have changed the way we work in many ways, working from home, social distancing, and remote operations have all had impacts on our previously known ways of life. At Microsoft, we have been working hard to assist our customers adjust to this rapidly changing and evolving work...

HackerOne: Indexing of urls on the "External link warning" pages discloses many vulnerable endpoints from the past and unlisted videos/photos

@nagli found a misconfiguration in an interstitial page that could lead to a link to be indexed by a 3rd party. This could have exposed links to proof of concepts that HackerOne users had posted on hackerone.com. This affected a specific set of customers, which HackerOne worked together with to...

Credential-Stuffing Attack Hits The North Face

The North Face has reset its customers’ passwords after attackers launched a credential-stuffing attack against the popular outdoor outfitter’s website. In a recent data-breach notification, the company told customers that it was alerted to “unusual activity involving its website,”...