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Microsoft Releases New Agentic AI Tools

The foundation of the new offerings is MIcrosoft Sentinel, the company’s security platform, that now includes the availability of the massive Sentinel data lake.

Dennis Fisher · 1 min
Intrusions

Microsoft, Cloudflare Disrupt RaccoonO365 Phishing Kit Service

Microsoft and Cloudflare this week announced that they paired up to disrupt RaccoonO365, a phishing-as-a-service cybercriminal enterprise.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 3 min
Intrusions

Senator Flags Microsoft’s Role in the Ascension Ransomware Hack

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants the U.S. government to hold Microsoft responsible “for contributing to ransomware attacks against critical U.S. infrastructure” like Ascension.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 2 min

CISA, Microsoft Warn of Exchange CVE-2025-53786 Risk

CISA has issued an emergency directive regarding the recently disclosed and somewhat weird vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange hybrid deployments (CVE-2025-53786), ordering all civilian federal agencies to address the flaw by Aug. 11.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Intrusions

Microsoft Finds Secret Blizzard Targeting Foreign Diplomats

Microsoft has uncovered a long-running campaign by a threat group affiliated with Russian intelligence that has targeted diplomats working in Russia with a custom tool called ApolloShadow that enables the group to maintain persistence on victims’ devices as part of a cyberespionage operation. The group is known as Secret Blizzard and Microsoft’s researchers found that…

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Intrusions

Chinese Attackers Target SharePoint CVE-2025-53770

Three separate Chinese threat groups are exploiting a set of recently disclosed vulnerabilities in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint installations, and Microsoft and CISA are urging companies that haven’t yet updated their installations to do so as quickly as possible.  Microsoft first published information about the two flaws (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771) on July 19 after seeing active…

Dennis Fisher · 1 min

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