While it’s a norm for phishing campaigns that distribute weaponized Microsoft Office documents to prompt victims to enable macros in order to trigger the infection chain directly, new findings indicate attackers are using non-malicious documents to disable security warnings prior to executing macro code to infect victims’ computers. In yet another instance of malware authors…
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Microsoft’s latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong
Microsoft has published a preliminary root cause analysis of its March 15 Azure Active Directory outage, which took down Office, Teams, Dynamics 365, Xbox Live and other Microsoft and third-party apps that depend on Azure AD for authentication. The roughly 14-hour outage affected a “subset” of Microsoft customers worldwide, officials said. Microsoft’s preliminary analysis of the incident,…