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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.
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 22

6 min read

Microsoft Security success stories: How St. Luke’s and ManpowerGroup are securing AI foundations

How Frontier firms secure AI at scale: read how Microsoft customers embed governance, identity, and cloud security to make protection an enabler of AI growth.
May 21

3 min read

What’s new in Microsoft Security: May 2026

Microsoft Security’s latest updates extend visibility, control, and protection across expanding ecosystems as organizations accelerate AI adoption.
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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

Securing the gaming culture of cultures

Read about the unique challenges and rewards of securing gaming platforms and how to better protect gaming communities.
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.
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.
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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.
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.

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