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The threat actor known as COLDRIVER has continued to engage in credential theft activities against entities that are of strategic interests to Russia while simultaneously improving its detection evasion capabilities. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team is tracking under the cluster as Star Blizzard (formerly SEABORGIUM). It’s also called Blue Callisto, BlueCharlie (or TAG-53), Calisto (alternately […]
Dec 04, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Cyber Attack Microsoft has warned of a new wave of CACTUS ransomware attacks that leverage malvertising lures to deploy DanaBot as an initial access vector. The DanaBot infections led to “hands-on-keyboard activity by ransomware operator Storm-0216 (Twisted Spider, UNC2198), culminating in the deployment of CACTUS ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team […]
Sam Altman marked his formal return as CEO of OpenAI today in a company memo that confirmed changes to the company’s board, including a new nonvoting seat for the startup’s primary investor, Microsoft. In a memo sent to staff and shared on OpenAI’s blog, Altman painted the chaos of the past two weeks, triggered by […]
Microsoft has updated its email notification process to promptly inform marketers about disapprovals in their ads, keywords, and product offers. These changes include: More frequent alerts. Enhanced insights. Technical error notifications. Why we care. The enhanced notification process is designed to give marketers quicker and more detailed information about ad disapprovals. This grants you additional […]
Nov 11, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime A sub-cluster within the infamous Lazarus Group has established new infrastructure that impersonates skills assessment portals as part of its social engineering campaigns. Microsoft attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Sapphire Sleet, describing it as a “shift in the persistent actor’s tactics.” Sapphire Sleet, also called […]
Developer.com content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Visual Studio is Microsoft’s comprehensive integrated development environment (IDE) that helps developers create web and mobile apps, computer programs, websites, and web services. Packed with features for building, coding, deployment, debugging, analysis, collaboration, […]
Microsoft has reported its strongest financial quarter to date in Q3 of 2023. Search and news advertising revenue increased 10% year on year, excluding traffic acquisition costs that Microsoft pays to publishers. The rise in search and news advertising revenue marks a significant boost from last quarter’s 3% increase. LinkedIn revenue was also up 8%, with […]
Oct 14, 2023NewsroomAuthentication / Endpoint Security Microsoft has announced that it plans to eliminate NT LAN Manager (NTLM) in Windows 11 in the future, as it pivots to alternative methods for authentication and bolster security. “The focus is on strengthening the Kerberos authentication protocol, which has been the default since 2000, and reducing reliance on […]
Oct 11, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Vulnerability Microsoft has linked the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server to a nation-state actor it tracks as Storm-0062 (aka DarkShadow or Oro0lxy). The tech giant’s threat intelligence team said it observed in-the-wild abuse of the vulnerability since September 14, 2023. “CVE-2023-22515 […]
Meta AI, announced today, is a new conversational assistant “you can interact with like a person,” according to the company. Microsoft Bing is working with Meta to “integrate Bing into Meta AI’s chat experiences enabling more timely and up-to-date answers with access to real-time search information,” according to Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president and consumer […]
