Cybersecurity experts are warning enterprise admins about an increasing number of phishing campaigns aimed at stealing Microsoft 365 (M365) access tokens to bypass multifactor authentication login protection. Phishing kits aimed at capturing M365 tokens aren’t new; some reports say these kits have been around since 2021. One of the latest is EvilTokens, which researchers at…
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Attackers are bypassing MFA on SonicWall VPNs because something was wrong with previous fix
Attackers bypassed MFA on patched SonicWall Gen6 VPNs because admins missed extra manual steps required to fully fix the flaw. There is a particular kind of security failure that is harder to catch than an unpatched system: a patched system where the patch did not actually work because nobody followed all the steps. That is…
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Microsoft issues YellowKey mitigation, no patch yet
Microsoft acknowledged the YellowKey BitLocker bypass flaw and released mitigations, urging admins to disable autofstx.exe and enable TPM+PIN. A week after Chaotic Eclipse publicly dropped the YellowKey vulnerability, Microsoft acknowledged it and published a mitigation. Not a patch, a mitigation. The distinction matters, and we will get to why. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-45585 (CVSS…
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Meet Fragnesia, the third Linux kernel vulnerability in a month
Linux admins reeling from handling last month’s CopyFail and last week’s Dirty Frag kernel vulnerabilities have a new headache to deal with: Fragnesia. “This is a significant vulnerability,” Robert Beggs, head of incident response firm DigitalDefence, told CSO. “It is bypassing traditional filesystem permissions that are present and enforced (for example, ‘file is owned by…
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Microsoft turns Copilot Studio into an AI agent control center
The Microsoft Copilot Studio April 2026 updates improve visibility and governance for admins and expand workflow capabilities for managing agents. Copilot surfaces agent status in the authoring experience, giving admins insight into each agent’s security and protection posture. Customers can identify issues such as authentication gaps or policy impacts and investigate them at the source.…
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Linux kernel maintainers suggest a ‘kill switch’ to protect systems until a zero-day vulnerability is patched
Linux server admins may get the ability to turn off a vulnerable function in the OS kernel until a patch for a zero-day vulnerability is ready, if a proposal from a kernel developer and maintainer is accepted by the open source community. The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by…
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Flawed Cisco update threatens to stop APs from getting further patches
Cisco admins are scrambling to patch a critical flash memory overflow vulnerability in over 200 Cisco Systems IOS XE-based models of wireless access points (APs), caused by a recent flawed software update. If the issue is not corrected quickly, the AP’s memory will become so flooded that new software updates will be blocked and the…
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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release for April is a whopper
Windows admins are going to be busy this month, dealing with the largest Patch Tuesday cycle we can recall. The April release involves 165 updates and roughly 340 unique CVEs from Microsoft — including two zero-days, one of which is already being actively exploited in the wild. The Readiness team is recommending “Patch Now” schedules…
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Cisco Systems issues three advisories for critical vulnerabilities in Webex, ISE
Admins who use Cisco Webex Services configured to use trust anchors within the SSO integration with Control Hub must install a new identity provider certificate to close a critical vulnerability, or risk losing access control. Cisco said in an advisory this week that admins must upload a new identity provider (IdP) SAML certificate to Webex…
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Cisco Systems issues three advisories for critical vulnerabilities in Webex, ISE
Admins who use Cisco Webex Services configured to use trust anchors within the SSO integration with Control Hub must install a new identity provider certificate to close a critical vulnerability, or risk losing access control. Cisco said in an advisory this week that admins must upload a new identity provider (IdP) SAML certificate to Webex…
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Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. […]
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Microsoft working on Teams feature to help admins block unauthorized bots
Microsoft plans to add a new Teams feature that lets meeting admins identify and control third-party bots before they join. According to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the feature is scheduled to begin rolling out in May 2026 on Desktop, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android versions of Microsoft Teams. Bots that are part of a company’s…
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Security hole could let hackers take over Juniper Networks PTX core routers
Network admins with Juniper PTX series routers in their environments are being warned to patch immediately, because a newly-discovered critical vulnerability could lead to an unauthenticated threat actor running code with root privileges. The hole is “especially dangerous, because these devices often sit in the middle of the network, not on the fringes,” said Piyush…
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Apple to kill app support for Intel-based Macs next year
IT admins and decision-makers take note: Apple has confirmed it will terminate Rosetta support for Intel-based apps starting with macOS 28 in 2027. That means any remaining Intel apps your company relies on must be replaced to maintain business continuity and security. It’s also important to note that macOS 26 will be the last OS upgrade to support any…