The targeted espionage tool hides commands and stolen files inside calendar events while using legitimate Microsoft cloud traffic to evade detection.
AI agents have quickly moved into mainstream enterprise use, but the content infrastructure needed to support them has struggled to keep up, according to a new survey-based report from cloud content management company Box.
Security teams have invested heavily in email protection, endpoint security and identity controls, but Fortra's latest research suggests one challenge remains difficult to solve: users.
Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a threat intelligence service and expanded its managed detection and response offering as the company looks to help security teams face growing volume of threat data into specific defensive actions.
Microsoft and 3M on Wednesday announced a wide-ranging partnership that links two major areas of enterprise AI investment: the infrastructure needed to support AI data centers and the use of AI to modernize large organizations.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/16/2026
Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday release broke the record for a second straight month, delivering fixes for roughly 570 holes across Windows, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Azure and others.
Microsoft will make passkeys the default authentication method in Entra ID and phase out its native delivery of SMS and voice authentication, a major shift aimed at reducing organizations' dependence on credentials that attackers can intercept or steal.
Cloud security firm Sysdig has documented what it says is the first ransomware attack carried out from initial exploitation through encryption by an autonomous AI agent, without a human directing each step after the operation began.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/13/2026
Despite years of investment in cybersecurity technologies, many enterprise breaches still begin with familiar weaknesses.
Microsoft is reportedly using its internally developed artificial intelligence models to handle some workloads in Excel and Outlook, offering new evidence that the company is moving its AI strategy beyond model development and into large-scale cost reduction.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/09/2026
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is shaping up to be more than the world's biggest sporting event. According to Flashpoint, it is also becoming one of the largest cybersecurity and security challenges ever faced by tournament organizers.
Microsoft is rolling out new capabilities aimed at showing orgswhether artificial intelligence agents deliver measurable value while expanding how employees use Copilot to create and analyze surveys.
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in an effort to help enterprises move artificial intelligence projects beyond pilots and into production, betting that deployment expertise will become a more important competitive advantage than model development alone.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/07/2026
Microsoft is cutting about 4,800 jobs worldwide in a companywide transformation that executives said is focused on changing business priorities, customer needs and operating models.
Anthropic's Claude family of AI models is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, giving enterprise developers another frontier model they can deploy, manage and govern through Microsoft's cloud AI platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/02/2026
Microsoft is accelerating its quantum-safe security timeline, saying advances in quantum computing and new federal requirements have pushed post-quantum cryptography from a future planning issue into an immediate engineering priority.
Artificial intelligence agents are moving beyond experimentation and into production, according to Microsoft's inaugural 2026 Agent Confidence Index.
Microsoft has disrupted a large malicious browser extension campaign that used hidden payloads, delayed execution and disposable developer accounts to evade detection while targeting users with ad fraud, credential theft and remote code execution capabilities.
Forrester’s latest extended detection and response platform evaluation puts Microsoft and CrowdStrike in the Leaders category, but the bigger story for cloud-focused security teams is how much the XDR market has changed.
The rapid buildout of AI infrastructure is facing growing public resistance, but a new survey suggests the opposition may be rooted less in local datacenter projects than in broader distrust of artificial intelligence, Big Tech and who stands to benefit from the AI boom.