Microsoft, Friday, November 6th, 2026
ARTEX Abuse Expands as Cybercriminals Target Financial Sector
Microsoft says Cambodia-based Storm-3358 began using the agentic AI framework ARTEX to attack financial organizations in October 2026.
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Microsoft, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
What's New in Microsoft Foundry: October 2026
Microsoft Foundry's October 2026 update adds the Copilot harness preview, GA Browser Automation, hosted-agent resilience and Decisions API.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Bring Agentic Coding On-Device with Foundry Local
Foundry Local runs Qwen3.8-27B on Nvidia GPUs and connects to GitHub Copilot for private, offline agentic coding.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Microsoft Foundry Extension for Azure Developer CLI Is Generally Available
The Microsoft Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI reached 1.0 GA for setting up, testing and deploying hosted agents.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Stop Treating Agents as One-Off Projects and Start Running Them as a Continuous Discipline
Microsoft urges running AI agents as a continuous business discipline, citing an IDC study on AI funding, costs and governance.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Email Threat Landscape: Q3 2026 Trends and Insights
Microsoft detected about 7.3 billion phishing emails in Q3 2026, with September up 41%, as QR phishing fell and CAPTCHA-gated lures rose.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
What's New in Microsoft Security: November 2026
Microsoft Security's November 2026 updates add AI agent permission controls, Execution Containers GA, Intune EPM and Defender changes.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Threat Actors Use Agentic AI Tooling to Find and Abuse Exposed Secrets
Microsoft observed attackers using the agentic framework ARTEX to find exposed secrets on GitHub and abuse compromised OAuth apps.
more → Microsoft, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Predicting and Detecting Failures: How Azure Strengthens Reliability for Mission-Critical Workloads
Azure Failure Prediction and Detection predicts hardware failures and moves workloads, improving prevention of VM interruptions by 36%.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms
Microsoft was named a Leader in Gartner's inaugural 2026 Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms for Microsoft Agent 365.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Fake-Download Campaign Uses Trojanized Installers to Deliver Monetization Payloads
Microsoft Threat Intelligence details a fake-download campaign using trojanized Inno Setup installers to deliver monetization payloads.
more → Microsoft, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
What Exploited Vulnerabilities Have in Common: A Data-Driven Analysis of Real-World Attacks
Microsoft analyzes which CVEs get exploited, finding about 0.5 percent of disclosed vulnerabilities are linked to real-world attacks.
more → Microsoft, Saturday, October 31st, 2026
Inside a Malicious Claude Code-Branded Extension and Its Persistent SSH Backdoor
Microsoft analyzes a tampered Claude Code extension served on the Cursor marketplace that installed an SSH key and persistent reverse SSH access.
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Microsoft, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Tracking AI Adoption in North Korean Threat Actor Tradecraft
Microsoft tracks how North Korean threat actors use AI to speed up and scale existing operations, from front companies to lures.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Azure Cloud HSM Hardware Audit Logging: Verifiable Audit Trails for Security and Compliance
Microsoft announces Hardware Audit Logging for Azure Cloud HSM, collecting audit records generated by the HSM itself for compliance and forensics.
more → Microsoft, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
The CISO's Evolving Role: Protecting and Defending in the Agentic Era
Microsoft says CISOs must secure an enterprise run increasingly by AI agents while modernizing defense against AI-enabled attackers.
more → Microsoft, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Introducing the Microsoft Copilot Harness: Unlocking the Potential of Truly Multi-Model Agentic Work
Microsoft offers the GitHub-built Copilot harness through Foundry so developers can build multi-model agents without maintaining a harness.
more → Microsoft, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Introducing the Microsoft Copilot Harness in Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft puts the Copilot harness in public preview in Foundry Agent Service and makes long-running resilience for hosted agents GA.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
The Platform Approach to Becoming Frontier
Microsoft's Judson Althoff outlines a platform approach to Frontier Transformation built on Copilot, Microsoft IQ and Agent 365.
more → Microsoft, Monday, October 26th, 2026
From Classrooms to Careers: The Future of Education in an AI-Driven World
Microsoft's Juan Lavista Ferres introduces Learning Curves, a book of essays on AI's role in education from classrooms to careers.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
Flint-Interactive: A Language for Creating Interactive Data Visualizations
Microsoft Research introduces Flint-interactive, letting AI agents build charts users can click, filter and zoom.
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Microsoft, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
Data and AI Agents Give a Lift to TK Elevator Service Technicians
TK Elevator technicians use AI agents built on Microsoft Foundry and Azure OpenAI for job briefings and spoken debriefs.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
Advancing Digital Sovereignty With Greater Control and Choice
Microsoft outlines the next stage of Microsoft Sovereign Cloud across public, private and partner environments.
more → Microsoft, Monday, October 19th, 2026
Agents Are Your Newest Insiders. Security Must Move at Their Speed.
Microsoft extends Project Perception with Guardian Agents to secure AI agents as a new class of insider risk.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
What Will New Developers Do When AI Writes the Code?
Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman explain a Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon effort to train junior developers in the AI era.
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Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Microsoft Takes Aim at Jev With a Fast, Cheap Decision Model
Microsoft-Decision-1 returns calibrated probabilities for routing, classification and verification, challenging TypeSafe AI's Jev.
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The Next Platform, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Microsoft's Clea Maia 300 Inference XPU Is a Bandwidth Beast
An architectural analysis of Microsoft's third-generation Maia 300 accelerator, designed to scale agentic inference.
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Microsoft, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Copilot to Autopilot: Why No Single Safeguard Is Enough
Azure Networking describes a layered model that lets an AI agent autonomously resolve production network incidents within guardrails.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Advancing Hardware Security with Open-Source Integrated HSM Technology
Microsoft announced Project Tessera, turning Azure Integrated HSM into an open-source initiative with Marvell, Oracle and OCP.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, October 8th, 2026
Post-Quantum Authentication: Why Organizations Should Start Testing Certificate Ecosystems Now
Microsoft urges organizations to inventory certificate dependencies and test post-quantum authentication now.
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Microsoft, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
AI Transformation Across the Infrastructure Lifecycle: From Supply Chain to Fleet Operations
Microsoft's Azure hardware chief explains how agentic AI connects design, supply chain and fleet operations across Azure.
more → Microsoft, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
3 Lessons from Frontier AI Vulnerability Research
Microsoft's FORGE Lab found Windows flaws behind 140 CVEs since May and shares three lessons on scaling AI vulnerability research.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
CISO Perspectives on Managing Vulnerability Risks in the Age of AI
Microsoft advises CISOs to prepare for much larger AI-driven vulnerability volumes and record Patch Tuesday releases.
more → Microsoft, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Insights from the 2026 Microsoft Digital Defense Report
Microsoft releases its 2026 Digital Defense Report, highlighting how threats span identities, cloud, supply chains and AI agents.
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Microsoft, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Responsible Infrastructure at Hyperscale: Managing the Full Lifecycle of Azure Hardware
Azure details denser, more efficient datacenter hardware and new Circular Centers in Wales and Sydney for reusing retired equipment.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Beyond Source Code: A Path to the Keys to the Kingdom
Microsoft DART details how Storm-3068 turned a password reset into access to Azure DevOps pipelines and Kubernetes resources.
more → Microsoft, Monday, September 28th, 2026
SQL Server on Azure Local Is Now Generally Available
SQL Server on Azure Local is GA for connected and disconnected operations, targeting sovereign and remote environments.
more → Microsoft, Monday, September 28th, 2026
NeedyMantis: Unpacking a Post-Compromise Malware Family Used in Targeted Operations
Microsoft details NeedyMantis, a modular post-compromise malware framework used for long-term access in targeted intrusions.
more → Microsoft, Monday, September 28th, 2026
New Microsoft Data Innovations Unlock What Only Your Business Knows
Microsoft announces Fabric and Azure database advances, including Fabric IQ grounding Copilot in governed Power BI semantic models.
more → Microsoft, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Lifecycle
Azure introduces a VM Lifecycle policy with Current, Extended, End of Life and Retired stages to help customers plan migrations.
more → Microsoft, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Introducing the New Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot
Microsoft is overhauling Copilot with three new capabilities: a unified Home hub, a Code building tool, and a persistent proactive Autopilot agent.
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Microsoft, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Your Architecture Diagram Is Not Your Resilience
Microsoft's Mark Russinovich argues resilience must be continuously validated, since diagrams can look sound while operations drift.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For Production Agents in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft made GPT-6 Sol and Luna generally available in Foundry alongside GPT-6 Astra, rounding out a lineup for different agent workload needs.
more → Microsoft, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 Comes to Microsoft Foundry for Long-Running Coding and Knowledge Work
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic's most capable model to enterprise coding and knowledge-work agents.
more → VentureBeat, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Microsoft Releases New AI Playbook for Enterprises Based on Its Own Learnings, and It Reveals a Surprising 'Moat' Your Biz May Already Have
Microsoft's playbook advises redesigning processes before deploying agents and building advantage from context, not models.
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Microsoft, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
What We've Learned from Microsoft's Own AI Transformation
Microsoft shares internal lessons from deploying AI across its own workforce and business processes.
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Microsoft, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Microsoft's Commitment for AI in Education: Protecting Students, Strengthening Learning
Microsoft sets out education-specific AI commitments covering student data protection, safety controls, and teacher support.
more → Schneier on Security, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Microsoft's Patching
September's Patch Tuesday fixed a record ~972 vulnerabilities, evidence that AI vulnerability finding favors defenders for now.
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Cybersecurity Dive, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Accountability, Oversight and AI: Inside Microsoft's Security Transformation
Microsoft says its Secure Future Initiative has reshaped its security culture after years of embarrassing breaches.
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Microsoft, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Detect and Disrupt AI-Themed Attacks With Microsoft Defender
Campaigns impersonating ChatGPT, Copilot, DeepSeek and Claude drove a phishing kit sending 100,000 emails daily.
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