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Vulnerabilities

A Weaponised SVG File Let Researchers Run Commands on Bing's Own Servers

Security testers at XBOW uploaded a booby-trapped image to Bing's image search and ended up with full control over Microsoft's image-processing machines. Two critical patches followed.

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Threat Intelligence

After Tycoon2FA Was Shut Down, Phishing Criminals Went Looking for New Tricks

Microsoft's Q2 2026 email threat report shows that busting a major phishing-for-hire service slashed attack volume by 92%, but criminals quickly pivoted to Microsoft Teams chats and automated email campaigns that hit tens of thousands of organisations in hours.

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Identity & Access

Microsoft's New Passkey System Has Flaws That Let Old Hacking Tricks Work Again

A security researcher found three near-exploitable bugs in Windows 11 and Microsoft's cloud login service, just as the company prepares to make passkeys the default for hundreds of millions of users.

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Cloud Security

Microsoft Exchange Online is Wrongly Locking Away Customer Mailboxes

A memory bug from an infrastructure change has been quarantining legitimate mailboxes since Sunday, blocking email and calendar access with no full-fix timeline yet.

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Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Wants You to Patch in Three Days. Security Teams Say That's Not How It Works.

Microsoft is telling IT administrators to apply security fixes within 72 hours, citing AI tools that find and exploit software flaws faster than ever. Experts agree on the threat. They disagree, sharply, on whether three days is workable.

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AI Security

A Hidden Comment in Azure DevOps Can Trick an AI Reviewer Into Stealing Code

Microsoft's official Azure DevOps MCP server passes pull request descriptions to AI agents without checking for hidden instructions, letting an outsider steer a reviewer's assistant into private projects.

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Vulnerabilities

Microsoft admits Windows update server sync has been broken for over a week

WSUS synchronization failures have blocked enterprise Windows updates since July 13, 2026, with only new installations fully restored so far.

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Identity & Access

Microsoft sees spike in ACR Stealer attacks lifting passwords and session tokens from browsers

The info-stealer is arriving through fake 'fix this error' prompts and hidden inside JPEG images, and it walks off with the browser cookies that keep users signed in.

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Vulnerabilities

Windows 'LegacyHive' zero-day hands ordinary users admin power on fully patched PCs

A researcher published working attack code hours after Microsoft's July 2026 patches, and it still works. Microsoft has no fix yet, and no CVE has been assigned.

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Cloud Security

Your Company Uses Hundreds of Cloud Apps. Security Teams Can See Inside Almost None of Them.

Three real breaches show how misconfigured software-as-a-service tools leak customer records, private messages, and source code, all without anyone breaking down a single door.

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Policy & Regulation

Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro users have three months before security updates stop

Microsoft has set 13 October 2026 as the cut-off for monthly patches on Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro, and on Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016.

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Vulnerabilities

Old, Forgotten Boot Programs Left a Back Door Open Below Your Operating System

Security researchers found 11 outdated Linux boot components that Microsoft had quietly kept trusting for years. Any attacker with a copy could have slipped past a core security feature before Windows or Linux even started loading.

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Vulnerabilities

Researcher Publishes Windows Privilege-Escalation Exploit Hours After Microsoft's Monthly Patch

A proof-of-concept called LegacyHive targets the Windows User Profile Service, raising fresh questions about coordinated disclosure timing.

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Vulnerabilities

CISA sounds alarm on SharePoint Server flaws being used to break in right now

The US cyber agency says attackers are chaining three unpatched holes in self-hosted SharePoint to bypass logins, run code and stay hidden. Nearly 10,000 servers sit exposed online.

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Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Halts Windows 11 Update for Dell PCs After Shutdowns and Overheating

A clash between a new Windows USB-C component and an Intel power-management driver is bricking performance on some Dell laptops.

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