December 19, 2024
Microsoft observes more than 600 million ransomware, phishing, and identity attacks each day.¹ One major theme from our analysis of these attacks is clear—organizations with integrated […]
December 17, 2024
Traditional security approaches don’t work for AI. Generative AI technology is already transforming our world and has immense positive potential for cybersecurity and business processes, but […]
December 13, 2024
There’s no doubt about it: The password era is ending. Bad actors know it, which is why they’re desperately accelerating password-related attacks while they still can. […]
December 12, 2024
After co-opting the tools and infrastructure of another nation-state threat actor to facilitate espionage activities, as detailed in our last blog, Russian nation-state actor Secret Blizzard […]
December 12, 2024
Delivering industry-leading detection for a sixth consecutive year For the sixth year in a row, Microsoft Defender XDR demonstrated industry-leading extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities […]
December 11, 2024
In today’s evolving digital landscape, safeguarding data has become a challenge for organizations of all sizes. The ever-expanding data estate, the volume and complexity of cyberattacks, […]
December 9, 2024
Introduction In February 2024, we released an update to Exchange Server which contained a security improvement referenced by CVE-2024-21410 that enabled Extended Protection for Authentication (EPA) […]
December 6, 2024
We are excited to introduce LLMail-Inject, a new challenge focused on evaluating state-of-the-art prompt injection defenses in a realistic simulated LLM-integrated email client. In this challenge, […]
December 6, 2024
Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions have long served as the indispensable nerve center for the security operations center (SOC). However, the SIEM landscape has […]
December 6, 2024
In mid-October, we released our 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report, which revealed over 600 million identity attacks per day. As multifactor authentication now blocks most password-based […]
December 5, 2024
Based on both Microsoft Threat Intelligence’s findings and those reported by governments and other security vendors, we assess that the Russian nation-state actor tracked as Secret […]
December 5, 2024
Identity and network access is the foundation of modern cybersecurity, with 66% of attacks involving compromised identities.¹ Equipping identity professionals to secure access to everything has […]