Neowin News Feed for: Cybercriminals

Microsoft Teams becomes key witness in government database wipe crime

Usama Jawad — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:58:01 +0000

A bizarre Microsoft Teams mistake exposed conversations tied to a major government database deletion case. Read more...

Comcast warns over 237,000 customers of ransomware data breach

Omer Dursun — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:30:01 +0000

Comcast has notified more than 237,000 customers that their personal information was compromised in a ransomware attack on a former debt collection agency. Read more...

Fake CrowdStrike manual delivers malware, not recovery

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:16:01 +0000

Cybercriminals are exploiting the recent faulty CrowdStrike update outage using a fake Microsoft recovery manual Word document to deliver a stealer malware which is now tracked as Daolpu. Read more...

Cybercriminals exploit CrowdStrike chaos to spread Crowdstrike-hotfix.zip malware

Pradeep Viswanathan — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:57:36 +0000

While CrowdStrike and Microsoft provided fixes, cybercriminals exploited the situation by spreading malware disguised as a hotfix and launching phishing campaigns targeting CrowdStrike customers. Read more...

Microsoft warns of a rising cybercriminal group targeting gift cards

John Callaham — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:32:01 +0000

Microsoft has put out an alert about a cybercriminals group labeled Storm-0539. The group has allegedly used cloud and identity services to target gift card portals for major retailers. Read more...

Microsoft officially says it is "making security our top priority" from now on

John Callaham — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:50:01 +0000

Charlie Bell, Microsoft's Executive Vice President for Security, has written a blog post announcing that the company is now "making security our top priority" above all other features. Read more...

Microsoft is reportedly making security improvements its current top priority at the company

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:26:01 +0000

A new report claims that after a series of high-profile security breaches at Microsoft, the company is now concentrating on making improvements to its security features and services. Read more...

Microsoft says a Russian hacker group has been exploiting an old Windows Print Spooler issue

John Callaham — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:48:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that a Russian hacker group has been exploiting an old Windows Print Spooler issue for as long as four years in order to "steal credentials in compromised networks." Read more...

Microsoft says a Russian hacker group got access to some of its source code repositories

John Callaham — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:00:01 +0000

Microsoft has posted an update on the discovery that a Russian hacker group accessed its corporate email accounts. Apparently, it used the information to breach Microsoft's source code repositories. Read more...

Microsoft and OpenAI claim hackers are using generative AI to improve cybearattacks

John Callaham — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:42:04 +0000

Microsoft and OpenAI are teaming up once again to publish new research that shows more state-supported hackers are using generative AI services like ChatGPT for new kinds of attacks. Read more...

Microsoft says a Russian intelligence group got access to emails from its top executives

John Callaham — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:37:56 +0000

Microsoft announced in a regulatory filing on Friday that a Russian intelligence group called Nobelium hacked into the email accounts of some of the company's top executives in November 2023 Read more...

Microsoft disables a web-based app installer protocol to shut down malicious activity

John Callaham — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:06:01 +0000

This week, Microsoft shut down the default for a web-based app installer protocol after it detected that it was being used by cybercriminals to make people install malicious software. Read more...

Microsoft goes after a cybercriminal group that sold millions of fraudulent accounts online

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:20:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced it is going after a Vietnam-based cybercriminal group it has labeled as Storm-1152, and has taken down sites used by the group to sell fraudulent Microsoft accounts. Read more...

Microsoft announces Secure Future Initiative to help improve its cybersecurity efforts

John Callaham — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:00:09 +0000

Microsoft has announced plans to beef up its cybersecurity efforts. It revealed plans for its Secure Future Initiative which will use AI and more advanced software engineering to combat cybercrime. Read more...

For the third month in a row, a Flash zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:36:01 +0000

A zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in the wild across all platforms, as Adobe's engineers scramble to put out a patch this week. This is the third such instance in as many months. Read more...