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A developing threat activity cluster has been found using Google Ads in one of its campaigns to distribute various post-compromise payloads, including the recently discovered Royal ransomware. "Observed DEV-0569 attacks show a pattern of continuous innovation, with regular incorporation of new discovery techniques, defense evasion, and various post-compromise payloads, alongside increasing ransomware facilitation," the Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team said in an analysis.
Microsoft has released optional out-of-band updates to fix a known issue triggering Kerberos sign-in failures and other authentication problems on enterprise Windows domain controllers after installing cumulative updates released during November's Patch Tuesday. "After installing updates released on November 8, 2022 or later on Windows Servers with the Domain Controller role, you might have issues with Kerberos authentication," Microsoft explained.
NET Core versions until it reaches the end of support next month.NET Native releases, warned this July, Microsoft will stop providing technical support or servicing updates after EOS. "We recommend moving to.NET 6 as soon as possible. If you are still using.NET Core 3.1 after the end of support date, you'll need to update your app to.NET 6 or.NET 7 to remain supported and continue to receive.NET updates," Whittaker said.
Microsoft has resolved a known issue triggering errors and temporarily causing the taskbar and desktop to disappear on Windows 10 systems. "You might experience an error in which the desktop or taskbar might momentarily disappear, or your device might become unresponsive," Microsoft explains on the Windows health dashboard.
Okta, a leading provider of authentication services, has shared a workaround for ongoing issues preventing customers from logging into their accounts using Microsoft Office 365 Single Sign-On. Based on a new incident added to the company's status page, the outage affects users across the United States, EMEA, and Japan. "We have deployed a fix across all cells. After deploying the fix, we are still seeing a number of issues. We are still actively investigating these issues to isolate a fix. We are also actively monitoring the systems," the company said in a recent update.
How can an organization build out a zero trust environment with diverse Microsoft technologies? A modern identity management and authentication framework is at the center of everything and must integrate seamlessly with Active Directory and cloud environments like Azure. Although Microsoft has established itself as a leader in the enterprise identity and security space with Azure AD and Windows Hello, they do not address the full spectrum of enterprise identity requirements, particularly as organizations expand beyond Windows workstation and Microsoft cloud environments.
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Photos: IRISSCON 2022IRISSCON, the annual cyber crime-themed conference organized by the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service, was held in Dublin, Ireland on Thursday, November 10, 2022. Security "Sampling" puts US federal agencies at riskTitania launched an independent research report that uncovers the impact of exploitable misconfigurations on the security of networks in the US federal government.
Microsoft announced that the Mobile Network Protection feature is generally available to help organizations detect network weaknesses affecting Android and iOS devices running Microsoft's Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform.Once Mobile Network Protection is toggled, MDE will provide protection and alerts when rogue Wi-Fi-related threats and certificates are detected.
Microsoft is working on a fix for a new known issue behind lower-than-expected performance or stuttering in some games on systems running Windows 11 22H2. According to Redmond, this performance hit is likely caused by some apps and games inadvertently enabling GPU performance debugging features. "Some games and apps might experience lower than expected performance or stuttering on Windows 11, version 22H2," the company says on the Windows Health dashboard.