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phishing
Microsoft disrupts phishing network behind more than a billion scam messages

Microsoft uncovered a criminal marketplace supplying tools and accounts used in phishing scams worldwide. Attackers used these resources to target organizations in healthcare, …

Microsoft-Decision-1
Microsoft’s new model helps AI agents judge their next move

Microsoft-Decision-1 is a small decision-scoring model. Given a situation, a question and a fixed set of answer options, it returns a calibrated probability for each option. …

Microsoft
Windows PCs missing key updates could lose security fixes in 2027

Microsoft is advising users and businesses to update Windows devices before digital certificates used to verify Windows Update servers expire in May and June 2027. The …

patch tuesday
October 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Time for an Office cleanup

September 2026 Patch Tuesday set an all-time record with 973 CVEs addressed across the Microsoft portfolio. We’re only four months into the Patch Apocalypse and everyone seems …

Windows App
Your Windows PC can now reach other PCs through Windows App

Microsoft has made remote PC connections generally available in Windows App on Windows. Users can access physical or virtual Windows PCs alongside Windows 365, Azure Virtual …

AI
AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns

Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 …

Microsoft
WSL containers are generally available on Windows

Microsoft made WSL containers generally available and shipped the feature with controls that let administrators switch it off or limit where it pulls images from. WSL …

CISO
16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data

A flaw in Titan, an internal Microsoft analytics service, could have let an attacker read employee records and Bing search analytics, a 16-year-old security researcher has …

phishing
Microsoft disrupts EvilTokens phishing service that gave criminals access to 12,000 inboxes

The EvilTokens phishing service, which compromised more than 12,000 inboxes at over 10,000 organizations, has been disrupted by a coalition of law enforcement and …

Microsoft
Microsoft sets security and safety rules for its AI models

Microsoft AI has published the first draft of its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, a training manual outlining how it develops AI models and intends them to behave during …

social engineering
Attackers call employees’ personal phones to break into Microsoft 365 accounts

Attackers are calling or texting employees on their personal phones, posing as internal IT staff, in a social engineering campaign that tricks them into handing over access to …

patch tuesday
September 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record patch count, 2 zero-days, and a SigRed successor

September 2026 Patch Tuesday is here, with Microsoft delivering another record-breaking number of patches, including those for two vulnerabilities that have been exploited as …

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