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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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February 14, 2024

13 min read

Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI

Microsoft, in collaboration with OpenAI, is publishing research on emerging threats in the age of AI, focusing on identified activity associated with known threat actors Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, and others.
January 29, 2024

2 min read

Join us at InfoSec Jupyterthon 2024

We’re inviting the community of analysts and engineers to join us at InfoSec Jupyterthon 2024.
January 25, 2024

10 min read

Midnight Blizzard: Guidance for responders on nation-state attack

The Microsoft security team detected a nation-state attack on our corporate systems on January 12, 2024, and immediately activated our response process to investigate, disrupt malicious activity, mitigate the attack, and deny the threat actor further access.
January 17, 2024

8 min read

New TTPs observed in Mint Sandstorm campaign targeting high-profile individuals at universities and research orgs

Since November 2023, Microsoft has observed a distinct subset of Mint Sandstorm (PHOSPHORUS) targeting high-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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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December 28, 2023

10 min read

Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer

Since mid-November 2023, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed threat actors, including financially motivated actors like Storm-0569, Storm-1113, Sangria Tempest, and Storm-1674, utilizing the ms-appinstaller URI scheme (App Installer) to distribute malware.
December 15, 2023

18 min read

Patching Perforce perforations: Critical RCE vulnerability discovered in Perforce Helix Core Server

Four new unauthenticated remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities discovered in the popular source code management platform Perforce Helix Core Server have been remediated after being responsibly disclosed by Microsoft.
December 12, 2023

16 min read

Threat actors misuse OAuth applications to automate financially driven attacks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence presents cases of threat actors misusing OAuth applications as automation tools in financially motivated attacks.
December 7, 2023

28 min read

Star Blizzard increases sophistication and evasion in ongoing attacks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence continues to track and disrupt malicious activity attributed to a Russian state-sponsored actor we track as Star Blizzard, who has continuously improved their detection evasion capabilities while remaining focused on email credential theft against targets.
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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December 5, 2023

28 min read

Microsoft Incident Response lessons on preventing cloud identity compromise

In real-world customer engagements, Microsoft IR sees combinations of issues and misconfigurations that could lead to attacker access to customers’ Microsoft Entra ID tenants.
November 22, 2023

7 min read

Diamond Sleet supply chain compromise distributes a modified CyberLink installer

Microsoft has uncovered a supply chain attack by the threat actor Diamond Sleet (ZINC) involving a malicious variant of an application developed by CyberLink Corp.
November 20, 2023

9 min read

Social engineering attacks lure Indian users to install Android banking trojans

Microsoft has observed ongoing activity from mobile banking trojan campaigns targeting users in India with social media messages and malicious applications designed to impersonate legitimate organizations and steal users’ information for financial fraud scams.
November 9, 2023

6 min read

Microsoft shares threat intelligence at CYBERWARCON 2023

At the CYBERWARCON 2023 conference, Microsoft and LinkedIn analysts are presenting several sessions detailing analysis across multiple sets of threat actors and related activity, demonstrating Microsoft Threat Intelligence’s ongoing efforts to track threat actors, protect customers, and share information with the wider security community.