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December (3)

security: From awareness to action: Building a security-first culture for the agentic AI era

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-10

Microsoft emphasizes that insights from Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Microsoft Ignite 2025 show security remains a top business priority. The article calls for moving from awareness to concrete action by building a security-first culture suited to the risks and opportunities of agentic (autonomous) AI, combining leadership commitment, policy and governance, workforce training, and technical controls.

security: Shai-Hulud 2.0: Guidance for detecting, investigating, and defending against the supply chain attack

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-09

Shai‑Hulud 2.0 is a large-scale supply chain attack in which adversaries maliciously modified hundreds of public packages to compromise developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud workloads in order to harvest credentials and configuration secrets. Microsoft published guidance to detect, investigate, and defend against these compromises across development toolchains, build systems, and cloud assets.

security: Stronger together: New Beazley collaboration enhances cyber resilience

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-12-08

Microsoft announced a new collaboration with Beazley naming them an incident response partner to strengthen cyber resilience by aligning with ecosystem partners and improving security for customers.

October (2)

security: The CISO imperative: Building resilience in an era of accelerated cyberthreats

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-22

Microsoft's Digital Defense Report 2025 highlights a changing cyberthreat landscape with a rise in financially motivated attacks and ongoing nation-state risks. The article argues that CISOs must focus on organizational response, adaptation, and resilience-building to meet accelerating threats.

security: Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-06

Microsoft’s Incident Response team works effectively amid the disorder caused by fast-moving threat actors, treating compromised environments, missing data, and shaken confidence as the starting point for investigations, as described in the Microsoft Security Blog post "Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos."

September (1)

security: Retail at risk: How one alert uncovered a persistent cyberthreat​​

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-09-24

Microsoft's Cyberattack Series examines a retail incident where a single security alert exposed a persistent cyberthreat. Attackers exploited unpatched SharePoint vulnerabilities and compromised identities to infiltrate networks, causing widespread operational risk—echoed by industry statistics (60% operational disruptions, 43% breaches). Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART) provided forensic analysis and actionable remediation guidance; the full report offers detailed findings and defensive recommendations.

August (1)

security: Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-08-27

Microsoft reports that financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 has shifted from deploying on-premises endpoint ransomware toward cloud-based ransomware tactics, increasingly focusing on cloud-specific TTPs after previously targeting hybrid cloud environments.