Threat Analysis
The latest Threat Analysis coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Ink Dragon's IIS Relay Attack: How Windows Servers Become C2 Hubs
The cybersecurity landscape has witnessed a sophisticated evolution in espionage tradecraft with the emergence of the Ink Dragon threat actor cluster, which has developed a chillingly efficient...
Whisper Leak: How Metadata Threatens Encrypted AI Chat Privacy
Microsoft's security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated side-channel vulnerability called "Whisper Leak" that threatens the privacy of encrypted AI conversations, even when using streaming...
Microsoft's Whisper Leak: New Side-Channel Threat to Encrypted LLM Privacy
Microsoft's security research team has uncovered a sophisticated side-channel vulnerability dubbed "Whisper Leak" that threatens the privacy of encrypted communications with large language models....
Unverified Deserialization Flaw in Microsoft HPC Pack Could Enable Remote Code Execution
Microsoft’s High Performance Compute (HPC) Pack is under scrutiny after a report surfaced describing a critical deserialization vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code...
Claude for Chrome Pilot Exposes Residual Prompt Injection Risks for Enterprise AI Browsing
Anthropic has quietly launched a research preview of a Chrome extension that lets its Claude AI assistant operate web browsers—clicking buttons, filling forms, and navigating multi-step...
Windows 10's October 2025 Deadline: Why Defender Is Your Best Bet—and Where It Falls Short
Microsoft will pull the plug on Windows 10 security updates on October 14, 2025. That date is non-negotiable. Yet millions of users still wrap themselves in three dangerous myths: that paying for...
Zenity Labs Unveils AgentFlayer: Zero-Click Exploits Hijack ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Salesforce Einstein
Zenity Labs has dropped a bombshell at Black Hat USA 2025: a new attack framework called AgentFlayer that lets adversaries silently hijack enterprise AI agents without so much as a mouse click....
Microsoft Warns of DirectX Kernel DoS Flaw That Can Crash Hosts Through Unchecked Graphics Allocations
Microsoft has issued a security advisory for CVE-2025-50172, a vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel that allows an authenticated attacker to exhaust system resources and cause a...
Microsoft’s Autonomous AI Agent Project Ire Nails 90% Malware Detection Accuracy
Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on Project Ire, an autonomous artificial intelligence agent that reverse-engineers and classifies suspicious software without human intervention—and in its...
Microsoft's Project Ire: Revolutionizing Autonomous AI-Driven Malware Detection
Artificial intelligence is reshaping nearly every aspect of modern computing, and cybersecurity is undeniably one of its most consequential frontiers. Nowhere is this more apparent than in...
Huntress & Microsoft: A Cybersecurity Partnership Transforming SMB Security
The cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving, presenting significant challenges for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Many SMBs, while reliant on Microsoft's ecosystem for their...
12 DevSecOps tools that shift security left and cut vulnerability fixes by 50%
DevSecOps represents a fundamental shift in software development, integrating security practices directly into the DevOps pipeline rather than treating them as an afterthought. This approach ensures...