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Simplify endpoint management with Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based unified endpoint management platform that empowers IT to manage, assess, and protect apps and devices.

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May 22 11 min read

From edge appliance to enterprise compromise: Multi-stage Linux intrusion via F5 and Confluence

A multi-stage attack on Linux devices began with an exposed F5 BIG-IP edge appliance and pivoted to an internal Confluence server for credential theft and identity compromise.
May 20 9 min read

Mini Shai Hulud: Compromised @antv npm packages enable CI/CD credential theft

Compromised @antv npm packages deploy the Mini Shai-Hulud payload to steal CI/CD secrets from Linux-based automation environments.
May 20 6 min read

Introducing RAMPART and Clarity: Open source tools to bring safety into Agent development workflow

The AI systems shipping inside enterprises today are fundamentally different from the ones we were building even two years ago, because they have moved well past answering questions and into accessing your email, retrieving records from your CRM, writing and executing code, and taking actions on your behalf across dozens of connected systems.
May 19 9 min read

Exposing Fox Tempest: A malware-signing service operation

Fox Tempest is a financially motivated threat actor operating a malware‑signing‑as‑a‑service (MSaaS) used by other cybercriminals, including Vanilla Tempest and Storm groups, to more effectively distribute malicious code, including ransomware.
Secure and verify every identity with Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Entra expands beyond identity and access management with new product categories such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and decentralized identity.

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May 18 20 min read

How Storm-2949 turned a compromised identity into a cloud-wide breach

Storm-2949 turned stolen credentials into a cloud-wide breach, moving from identity compromise to large-scale data theft without using malware.
May 14 7 min read

Defense in depth for autonomous AI agents

As AI agents gain autonomy, defense in depth must evolve, with application-layer design, identity, and human oversight at the center.
May 14 18 min read

Kazuar: Anatomy of a nation-state botnet

Kazuar, a sophisticated malware family attributed to the Russian state actor Secret Blizzard, has been under constant development for years and continues to evolve in support of espionage-focused operations.
May 14 7 min read

When configuration becomes a vulnerability: Exploitable misconfigurations in AI apps

Exposed UIs, weak authentication, and risky defaults could turn cloud-native AI apps on Kubernetes into potential targets by threat actors.
Prevent threats with Microsoft Defender

The Microsoft Defender family offers comprehensive threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities for everyone—from individuals looking to protect their family to the world’s largest enterprises.

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May 12 9 min read

Accelerating detection engineering using AI-assisted synthetic attack logs generation

What if you could generate realistic attack telemetry on demand? Explore research methods that translate attacker behaviors (TTPs) into synthetic logs that can trigger detections at scale and without sensitive data.
May 12 11 min read

Undermining the trust boundary: Investigating a stealthy intrusion through third-party compromise

Microsoft Incident Response investigated an attack operated through legitimate and trusted administrative mechanisms to blend seamlessly into routine operations and remain undetected demonstrating that intrusions have increasingly avoided using noisy exploits, obvious malware, or custom tooling, instead leveraging systems that organizations already trust within their environments.
May 8 5 min read

Active attack: Dirty Frag Linux vulnerability expands post-compromise risk

Dirty Frag is a newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting kernel networking and memory-fragment handling components including esp4, esp6, and rxrpc.
May 7 13 min read

When prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks

New research exposes how prompt injection in AI agent frameworks can lead to remote code execution.