January 17, 2025

New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts

In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the Russian threat actor we track as Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the […]
January 14, 2025

Analyzing CVE-2024-44243, a macOS System Integrity Protection bypass through kernel extensions

Microsoft Threat Intelligence discovered a new macOS vulnerability that could allow attackers to bypass Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS by loading third party kernel […]
January 7, 2025

Why security teams rely on Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR for managed detection and response

The expanding attack surface is creating more opportunities for exploitation and adding to the pressure on security leaders and teams. Increasingly, organizations are investing in managed […]
December 20, 2024

New Microsoft guidance for the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model

The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model (ZTMM) assists agencies in development of their Zero Trust strategies and continued evolution of their implementation […]
December 19, 2024

Foundry study highlights the benefits of a unified security platform in new e-book

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

Agile Business, agile security: How AI and Zero Trust work together

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

Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft to boost adoption and security

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

Frequent freeloader part II: Russian actor Secret Blizzard using tools of other groups to attack Ukraine

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 […]