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Patches thick and fast: October bulletins from Microsoft and others
  • vulnerabilities

Patches thick and fast: October bulletins from Microsoft and others

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday bulletin is breaking records again — it addresses 1,414 vulnerabilities. Here’s what you need to know.

  • Editorial Team

  • October 14, 2026

ConsentFix: yet another variation of the ClickFix attack
  • social engineering

ConsentFix: yet another variation of the ClickFix attack

A new variation of ClickFix allows attackers to gain access to Microsoft 365 accounts. We break down how this technique works, and what threat it poses to organizations.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • July 21, 2026

Key vulnerabilities of Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday
  • vulnerabilities

A tsunami of vulnerabilities: July’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has addressed approximately 600 vulnerabilities in its products, affecting its entire product line — including even Minecraft Server and Age of Empires II. How can organizations handle such a volume?

  • Kaspersky Team

  • July 15, 2026

How VoidStealer bypasses Chrome's protections to hijack sessions and steal data
  • stealers

New VoidStealer Trojan bypasses Chrome’s stored data protection

The new VoidStealer Trojan utilizes a novel method to bypass Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption, allowing it to hijack sessions and steal user data.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 6, 2026

How to disable unwanted AI assistants and features on your PC and smartphone
  • Privacy
  • Tips

Unplugged: how to disable AI on your computer and smartphone

Tired of hallucinations in AI overviews, and have no clue as to why or how Copilot suddenly appeared on your PC? Here’s a guide to switching off those intrusive AI features in popular services.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • March 5, 2026

Microsoft Exchange on-premises hardening recommendations
  • email

Hardening Exchange servers

Here’s how to mitigate the risks of targeted attacks on your organization’s mail servers.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • November 26, 2025

Update Microsoft SharePoint ASAP
  • vulnerabilities

Attack on Microsoft SharePoint servers

Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in SharePoint are actively exploited by attackers in real-world attacks.

  • Editorial Team

  • July 21, 2025

Microsoft Copilot+ Recall: who should disable it, and how
  • microsoft

Should you disable Microsoft Recall in 2025?

A year after its disastrous announcement, Microsoft is finally launching its AI-powered Recall feature on Copilot+ PCs. Is the new version secure, and what’s actually changed?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • May 15, 2025

The best private browser in 2025: where to flee from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
  • browsers

Privacy under attack: nasty surprises in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

How to counter new privacy invasions by browser developers

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • March 24, 2025

Main vulnerabilities from Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday
  • vulnerabilities

Six Microsoft vulnerabilities being actively exploited

Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday fixes several vulnerabilities that have already been used in the wild. Details are not clear at the moment, but it’s worth installing the patches ASAP.

  • Editorial Team

  • March 12, 2025

Spoofing via CVE-2024-49040
  • email

How to stop exploitation of CVE-2024-49040

The patch that fixes CVE-2024-49040 in Microsoft Exchange is temporarily unavailable. We’ve implemented heuristics that detect attempts to exploit it.

  • Roman Dedenok

  • November 26, 2024

Windows Downdate vulnerability: exploitation techniques and countermeasures
  • windows

How to guard against Windows downgrade attacks

Windows Downdate is an attack that can roll back updates to your OS to reintroduce vulnerabilities and allow attackers to take full control of your system. How to mitigate the risk?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • August 20, 2024

Impact of Microsoft Copilot+ Recall and Apple Intelligence on organizational cybersecurity
  • AI

How to prepare corporate cybersecurity for all-seeing AI assistants

Although Microsoft has radically revised the rollout plan for its controversial Recall feature, cybersecurity teams can’t afford to ignore the issue of “AI onlookers.

  • Kaspersky Team

  • July 23, 2024

Global outage of Microsoft clients due to CrowdStrike update
  • failure

Global outage due to Friday’s release of CrowdStrike

The story of how CrowdStrike released an update on a Friday and brought down thousands, tens of thousands, or maybe even hundreds of thousands of computers around the world.

  • Kaspersky Team

  • July 19, 2024

Zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer
  • vulnerabilities

Zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer

A zero-day vulnerability actively exploited by attackers has been discovered in Internet Explorer — the browser that Microsoft supposedly laid to rest over a year ago.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • July 16, 2024

Why the AI-powered search tool Recall in Windows 11 is dangerous, and how to disable it
  • microsoft

Don’t forget about Recall, because Recall won’t forget about you

The new AI function in Microsoft Windows has already been dubbed a “security nightmare” on the internet. What risks does it carry, and how to stay safe?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • June 25, 2024

How to set up private browsing and incognito mode correctly in 2024
  • Incognito

The incognito myth: how private browsing really works

How to use private browsing mode, what it doesn’t protect against, and why Google is deleting five billion dollars’ worth of user data.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • June 5, 2024

How to read encrypted messages from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots
  • AI

How hackers can read your chats with ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot

How hackers exploit chatbot features to restore encrypted chats from OpenAI ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and most other AI chatbots.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • April 24, 2024

Why you shouldn’t scan QR codes in emails
  • QR codes

Received an email with a QR code? Watch out!

Examples of how QR codes in emails are used for phishing.

  • Roman Dedenok

  • October 20, 2023

Windows driver compatibility and security issues — how to stay safe
  • driver

Microsoft getting to grips with drivers. Now it’s your turn!

We take a look at drivers: why we need them, the threats they pose, and how to keep your computer secure.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • October 3, 2023

Microsoft buried Internet Explorer. But not completely — again
  • vulnerabilities

Internet Explorer is finally dead. Or is it?

In its February update, Microsoft buried Internet Explorer once and for all. Or did it? We investigate what really happened.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 5, 2023

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