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Microsoft Slams Public Zero-Day Disclosures Amid GitHub Researcher Account Removal

Microsoft has come out strongly in favor of Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD), urging the research community to share their findings and give affected vendors an opportunity to better understand the impact and address them before they are publicly disclosed. The development comes after a researcher named Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) disclosed details of multiple zero-day

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…

CISA wants critical infrastructure to operate ‘weeks to months’ in isolation during conflict

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging critical infrastructure owners and operators to plan for delivering essential services under emergency conditions – potentially for months at a time. The federal government’s top cybersecurity agency warned that state-sponsored hackers, particularly two Chinese groups known as Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon, continue to threaten critical sectors…

Censys finds 5,219 devices exposed to attacks by Iranian APTs, majority in U.S.

Censys researchers found 5,219 exposed Rockwell PLCs online, mostly in the U.S., urging defenders to secure or disconnect them. On April 7, 2026, U.S. agencies, including FBI, CISA, and NSA, warned of Iran-linked APTs exploiting internet-exposed Rockwell Automation PLCs. Threat actors are carrying out cyberattacks targeting internet-connected operational technology (OT) across multiple critical infrastructure sectors.…

CISA urges IT to harden endpoint management systems after cyberattack by pro-Iranian group

The US is urging infosec leaders to harden their endpoint management system configurations after last week’s hack of American medical supplies provider Stryker by pro-Iranian threat actor Handala. The warning from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is principally for organizations using Microsoft Intune, a cloud-based unified endpoint management (UEM) service that Handala,…

CISA urges IT to harden endpoint management systems after cyberattack by pro-Iranian group

The US is urging infosec leaders to harden their endpoint management system configurations after last week’s hack of American medical supplies provider Stryker by pro-Iranian threat actor Handala. The warning from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is principally for organizations using Microsoft Intune, a cloud-based unified endpoint management (UEM) service that Handala,…

Overly permissive ‘guest’ settings put Salesforce customers at risk

Salesforce is urging its customers to review their Experience Cloud ‘guest’ configurations as cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims a new campaign involving data theft and extortion tied to exposed Salesforce environments. The group recently posted screenshots on its leak site claiming breaches of “several hundreds” of organizations, including around 400 websites and roughly 100 “high profile…

Microsoft seeks a stay on DoD’s effective ban on Anthropic offerings

Microsoft is urging a federal court in California to temporarily pause the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) effective ban on Anthropic’s AI offerings, arguing that the government’s “supply chain risk” label could have significant knock-on effects for its own defense technology business. In a filing backing Anthropic’s request for emergency relief, the company said the…

No, it’s not ‘unnecessarily burdensome’ to control your own data

According to a recent report, the State Department sent a cable urging U.S. diplomats to oppose international data sovereignty regulations like GDPR, characterizing these guardrails as “unnecessarily burdensome.”  In the cable, the State Department claims that data sovereignty regulations “disrupt global data flows, increase costs and cybersecurity risks, limit Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud services, and…

UK Warns of Heightened Iranian Cyber Risk as Middle East Conflict Intensifies

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging British organizations to brace for potential Iranian-linked cyber activity as tensions escalate in the Middle East.  While officials say there is no confirmed spike in direct attacks against the UK, they caution that the situation could shift rapidly.  “There is almost certainly a heightened risk…

UK sounds alarm on rising cyber risks to businesses

The UK government launched a national campaign urging businesses to strengthen basic cyber defenses. The initiative follows new figures highlighting the scale of the threat. Serious cyber incidents cost businesses an average of £195,000, with about half of small firms experiencing one in the past 12 months, officials say. “No business is out of reach…

Apple Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaw

Apple is urging users to update immediately after patching a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in what it described as “extremely sophisticated” attacks against specific individuals.  The flaw, which impacts multiple Apple operating systems, allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable devices. “An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary…