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Go beyond data protection with Microsoft Purview

Govern, protect, and manage all of your data with Microsoft Purview, comprehensive solutions to help give you better visibility and control.

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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 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 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.
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.
Streamline privacy management with Microsoft Priva

Protect and govern personal information, reduce privacy risks, and manage subject rights requests at scale with Microsoft Priva privacy risk management solutions.

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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 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 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 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.
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 26

15 min read

From poisoned search results to GPU mining: A cryptojacking campaign abusing ScreenConnect and Microsoft .NET utilities

Microsoft exposes a cryptojacking campaign using SEO poisoning and ScreenConnect to target high-performance PCs, with malicious sites also surfaced through AI chatbots.