Threat actors have begun to exploit two newly disclosed security flaws in Fortinet FortiGate devices, less than a week after public disclosure. Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf said it observed ...

New research has uncovered exploitation primitives in the .NET Framework that could be leveraged against enterprise-grade applications to achieve remote code execution. WatchTowr Labs, which has ...

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The "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication scheme, transmits credentials as user-id/password pairs, encoded using Base64. The server will gather the credentials from the base64 ...

Microsoft has announced that High Volume Email (HVE) in Microsoft 365 will continue to support basic authentication until September 2028. The idea is to give businesses more time to move to modern ...

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A botnet of more than 130,000 compromised devices is conducting a large-scale password-spray cyberattack, targeting Microsoft 365 accounts through a basic authentication feature. The attacks have been ...

A massive botnet of over 130,000 compromised devices is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide, targeting basic authentication to evade multi-factor ...