Microsoft announced earlier this week that the NTLM authentication protocol will be killed off in Windows 11 in the future. NTLM (short for New Technology LAN Manager) is a family of protocols used to ...

Microsoft announced that it will disable the 30-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases due to security vulnerabilities that expose organizations to cyberattacks.

Multiple attackers are actively exploiting a recently patched Windows vulnerability that exposes authentication credentials, despite Microsoft releasing a fix for it in March. CVE-2025-24054 is an ...

A new zero-day vulnerability in NTLM discovered by researchers at 0patch allows attackers to steal NTLM credentials by having a user view a specially crafted malicious file in Windows Explorer — no ...

Microsoft Improves Windows Security with a Path to Move Off NTLM Your email has been sent It’s time to stop relying on the insecure authentication protocol built into Windows. Microsoft is making it ...