Microsoft said it is taking the feedback seriously, adding: “To be clear about our approach to legal matters, we have no intention to pursue action against individuals conducting or publishing their security research.”
A suspected Pakistan-linked hacking group has targeted Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance and provincial government officials in a new cyberespionage campaign, researchers have found.
More than half of the attacks observed over the past year targeted educational institutions, particularly maritime universities and schools that train personnel for Russia's shipping, inland waterway and fishing industries.
Each vulnerability was published with working proof-of-concept code to the Microsoft-owned code repository GitHub, making them immediately available to both attackers and security professionals.
The company said the threat actor gained access to a limited portion of its IT environment last month after compromising an employee account. By the end of April, Carnival determined that the attacker had copied personal information from its systems.
In this GCN article, Staffan Truvé, CTO and Co-Founder at Recorded Future, explores how machine learning is speeding the processing of cybersecurity data.