Switzerland’s federal IT office says hackers exploited vulnerabilities to breach its Microsoft SharePoint servers and compromised approximately 200 accounts. The Federal Office for Information Technology and Telecommunication (BIT) detected the cyberattack after security specialists noticed unusual activity on its SharePoint servers on July 28. After confirming the breach, BIT blocked
For decades, enterprise security was largely focused on endpoints and networks. By protecting corporate end-user devices, establishing secure connectivity, and controlling access to on-premises resources, teams could effectively keep their centralized servers secure from intrusion. Eventually, these priorities evolved as enterprises embraced software-as-a-service (SaaS) models and cloud services, shifting to
A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to his role in accessing company accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from at least 165 organizations in a scheme to extort millions of dollars from victims. 26-year-old Connor Riley Moucka, also known as Alexander Moucka and Waifu, was arrested on
An Illinois man was sentenced on Tuesday to 76 months in prison and three years of supervised release for hacking the Snapchat accounts of over 750 women to steal nude photos, which he later traded or sold online. After being charged in December, 26-year-old defendant Kyle Svara admitted in February
American fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A has confirmed that over 13,000 customers had their data stolen in a recent wave of credential stuffing attacks. As BleepingComputer first reported, the company revealed in data breach notification letters filed with multiple attorney general’s offices that it detected attacks targeting its website and
Microsoft says a bug in its automated network maintenance request system caused Thursday’s massive outage by mistakenly removing IP routes from more devices than intended, disrupting Azure and Microsoft 365 services. The outage began at 10:44 AM ET on Thursday, July 23, and mostly affected customers accessing Microsoft 365 services
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT Workspace Agents that could have allowed a single phishing link to stealthily build, authorize, and deploy an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent inside a victim’s organization. The vulnerability has been codenamed AgentForger by Zenity Labs. The issue has since been
A crafted SVG submitted to Bing’s image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Microsoft’s production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines in the same fleet. XBOW’s testing got the same result on workers across different hosts and network ranges, so the problem sat in Bing’s image
AI agent security is moving through a familiar maturity curve: adoption, then visibility, and finally, control. But what we’ve collectively discovered is that enforcing least privilege for AI agents is harder than we ever imagined. This is why there are so many approaches, from prompt filtering to identity-layer access controls.