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The azure security tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft Azure security topics drawn from recent threads, including unverified claims of an Azure tenant data dump, the retirement of the AZ-500 exam and its SC-500 replacement, and CVE disclosures for Azure Profiler and Azure SQL Managed Instance with limited fix details. Other discussions examine Microsoft Cloud Security partner credentials, Darktrace's Azure workload protection, Veeam's Azure threat detection, and common causes of generative AI failures in Azure environments. These threads reflect recurring themes of identity, access control, data protection, vulnerability management, and operational security for Azure administrators and IT teams.
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    Azure Application Gateway v2 .js Query 403 Bypass Report: What Admins Should Verify

    A reported Azure Application Gateway v2 bypass deserves administrators’ attention—but not yet the label of a confirmed Microsoft vulnerability. According to Pasquale Pillitteri’s October 24, 2026 reporting, researcher Gospel (@4osp3l) showed a resource changing from HTTP 403 Forbidden to...
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    PHP2Shell RCE Flaws: Patch CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 on PHP Servers — Megathread

    PHP's maintainers say a supply-chain security vendor jumped the gun on their embargo. Chainguard's CEO says it shipped fixes because attacks had already started. Both sides agree on the clock, but they disagree about what the clock means. This matters to anyone running PHP, which includes IT...
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    Azure Application Gateway Keyless TLS Launches With Azure Key Vault Managed HSM

    Azure Application Gateway can now use a TLS private key that stays in Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. Microsoft's Azure Updates feed lists "Keyless TLS on Application Gateway with Azure Key Vault Managed HSM" as Launched, with a listing time of October 20, 2026. Azure defines Launched as fully...
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    Build a Secure Azure Functions API with Flex Consumption, Node.js v4, Entra ID and Durable Functions

    If you have a dusty Azure Functions deployment running quietly in the corner of your cloud tenant—perhaps held together by hope, duct tape, and a tutorial you bookmarked three years ago—it is time to check its pulse. In late 2026, Microsoft's serverless compute platform looks vastly different...
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    Storm-3168 Azure Attack: Compromised Service Principals Delete Storage Accounts

    In one early-June Azure intrusion, the attacker didn't need malware, a zero-day or a phishing email. Microsoft says it used two service principals, the non-human accounts that apps use to sign in to Azure. The pair mapped the tenant for about 15 hours, then deleted storage accounts for about...
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    CVE-2026-85921 Requires Windows Updates, Not Azure Patches

    Microsoft has remediated 18 vulnerabilities across Azure and Copilot-branded cloud services, and the immediate operational takeaway is unusually simple: there is no Windows, endpoint, agent, or tenant-side patch for administrators to deploy for these 18 issues. Microsoft says the corrections...
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    Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Prioritize Azure Attack Paths

    Wiz’s new State of Cloud Risk 2026 report says more than half of high-priority cloud findings disappear from the critical queue once internet exposure, privilege relationships, lateral movement, and data access are considered together. For Microsoft Azure administrators, the useful takeaway is...
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    Entra Directory Dump: 3.6M Records, No Azure Breach Proven

    A threat actor calling itself TheHatman is advertising roughly 3.6 million alleged employee-directory records from nine companies’ Microsoft Azure and Entra environments, but the evidence available on August 20 points to a more precise — and less proven — conclusion than “Azure breach.” The...
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    McDonald’s Entra Directory Dump Claim Remains Unverified

    A purported McDonald’s employee-directory dump is being offered by a forum seller who claims to have taken more than 1.7 million records from the company’s Microsoft Azure tenant, but the only material evidence publicly described so far is an 8,000-row sample. That distinction is the important...
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    AZ-500 Retires August 31: Choose SC-500 for Cloud Security

    A newly published explainer on AZ-500 cloud-security concepts leaves out the fact that Microsoft will retire the AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies exam on August 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM Central Time—24 days after the article’s August 7 publication date. The omission turns what reads as...
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    CVE-2026-49163: Azure Profiler Flaw Has No Fix Details

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-49163, an Application Insights Profiler elevation-of-privilege vulnerability, but the disclosure currently gives Azure administrators far less operational detail than they need to determine exposure. The Microsoft Security Response Center listed the CVE at 7:00...
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    CVE-2026-62836: Azure SQL MI Has No Customer Patch

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-62836, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Azure SQL Managed Instance, on August 6, 2026. For customers using the managed database service, the immediate operational point is unusual but important: Microsoft’s public advisory identifies the service and the...
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    Microsoft Cloud Security: IFI’s Azure Claim Is Not New

    IFI Techsolutions says it has achieved Microsoft’s Cloud Security specialization, a partner credential that can help the Mumbai-based managed-services provider surface in Microsoft sales channels. But the August 6 announcement distributed by PRNewswire and carried by ANI appears to describe a...
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    Darktrace ActiveAI Cuts Marine Security Triage 88%, Saves 411 Hours

    Darktrace says an unnamed marine-services operator supporting offshore energy, export infrastructure and regional logistics has used its ActiveAI Security Platform to reduce manual security triage while extending coverage across vessels, shore bases, Azure workloads, identity systems and email...
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    Veeam Data Platform v13.1 Adds Active Directory Forest Recovery

    Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is now generally available, adding Azure threat detection, automated Active Directory forest recovery and a new deep-archive option aimed at organizations trying to keep older backup data immutable without leaving it on higher-cost recovery storage. Virtualization...
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    Microsoft Azure AI: Weak RAG and Agent Access Drive Failures

    Enterprise AI rarely fails in the dramatic way many executives expect. The model does not suddenly become useless, the cloud platform does not necessarily go offline, and the interface may continue to look polished and responsive. Instead, failure usually starts earlier and deeper: in the...
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    Azure Synapse Delays Trusted-Services Change Until June 1, 2027

    Microsoft has postponed the retirement of the Azure Synapse Analytics trusted-services firewall exception, so the earlier 2026 cutover date should no longer drive outage planning. Microsoft Q&A product-team guidance posted July 9 says a new workspace-level security setting will be available...
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    AWS Security Hub Monitors Azure VMs, Containers and Identities

    Additional coverage of this story: AWS Security Hub Monitors Azure VMs, Containers and Identities The New Stack notes Azure is Security Hub’s first externally monitored cloud and highlights EventBridge routing for Azure findings. It also lists four unsupported Security Hub Regions, including...
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    CVE-2026-47632: Upgrade Azure Monitor Metrics Extension to 1.65

    Microsoft has fixed CVE-2026-47632, a high-severity elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Azure Monitor Agent Metrics Extension that affects versions from 1.0.0 through anything earlier than 1.65. Administrators running the extension on Azure virtual machines or Azure Arc-enabled servers...
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    AWS Security Hub Adds Azure VM and Identity Risk Findings

    AWS Security Hub can now discover and assess Microsoft Azure virtual machines, container images, Function Apps, and identities, giving multicloud security teams a shared queue for Azure and AWS risks. The July 14 expansion arrives alongside GuardDuty AI Protection, automated AI-powered...