How multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft apps for macOS pave the way to stealing permissions
An adversary could exploit these vulnerabilities by injecting malicious libraries into Microsoft's applications to gain their entitlements and user-granted permissions.
You’ve Got Mail: Critical Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability Executes as Email is Opened
Morphisec researchers have identified a critical Microsoft Outlook vulnerability, CVE-2024-30103, and detail its technical impact and recommended actions.
The Risks of the #MonikerLink Bug in Microsoft Outlook and the Big Picture
Recently, Check Point Research released a white paper titled “The Obvious, the Normal, and the Advanced: A Comprehensive Analysis of Outlook Attack Vectors”, detailing various attack vectors on Outlook to help the industry understand the security risks the popular Outlook app may bring into organizations. As mentioned in the paper, we discovered an interesting security issue in Outlook when the app handles specific hyperlinks. In this blog post, we will share our research on the issue with the security community and help defend against it. We will also highlight the broader impact of this bug in other software.
Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign
In three campaigns over the past 20 months, Russian APT Fighting Ursa has targeted over 30 organizations of likely strategic intelligence value using CVE-2023-23397.
Chinese hackers breached U.S. and European government email through Microsoft bug
A Chinese hacking group exploited a bug in Microsoft’s cloud email service to spy on two-dozen organizations, including some government agencies, the tech giant said late Tuesday.
Microsoft says early June disruptions to Outlook, cloud platform, were cyberattacks
Microsoft says the early June disruptions to its Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email apps — were denial-of-service attacks by a shadowy new hacktivist group. In a blog post published Friday evening after The Associated Press sought clarification on the sporadic but serious outages, Microsoft confirmed that that they were DDoS attacks by a group calling itself Anonymous Sudan, which some security researchers believe is Russia-affiliated. The software giant offered few details on the attack. It did not comment on how many customers were affected.
