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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Microsoft security researchers, in partnership with other security experts, continue to proactively explore and discover new types of AI model and system vulnerabilities. In this post we are providing information about AI jailbreaks, a family of vulnerabilities that can occur when the defenses implemented to protect AI from producing harmful content fails. This article will be a useful reference for future announcements of new jailbreak techniques.

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Credit to Author: Joy Chik| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

The trust fabric journey has four stages of maturity for organizations working to evaluate, improve, and evolve their identity and network access security posture.

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Since late 2023, Microsoft has observed an increase in reports of attacks focusing on internet-exposed, poorly secured operational technology (OT) devices. Internet-exposed OT equipment in water and wastewater systems (WWS) in the US were targeted in multiple attacks over the past months by different nation-backed actors, including attacks by IRGC-affiliated “CyberAv3ngers” in November 2023, as […]

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Credit to Author: Vasu Jakkal| Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In the ever-evolving landscape of cyberthreats, staying ahead of malicious actors is a constant challenge. The latest edition of Cyber Signals dives deep into the world of Storm-0539, also known as Atlas Lion, shedding light on their sophisticated methods of gift and payment card theft.

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed Storm-1811 misusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks that lead to malware like Qakbot followed by Black Basta ransomware deployment.

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