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When Arkose Labs announced it was deepening its relationship with Microsoft and expanding its services to Microsoft Azure, the collective heartbeat of the cybersecurity community ticked up by a few (highly encrypted) beats per minute. It’s not every day that one of the industry’s hottest account...

Arkose Labs and Microsoft are doing something most cybersecurity teams only dream about: they’re not just plugging security holes, but actively drilling through the layers of digital sediment to get ahead of would-be attackers. Yes, this means yet another strategic tech partnership announcement...

Microsoft rolled up its sleeves and kicked off 2025 with a punch aimed directly at cybercriminals exploiting AI technology. In a gripping twist straight out of a cyber-thriller, the tech giant’s Digital Crimes Unit has taken legal action to disrupt a sophisticated threat group using generative...

In a high-stakes move that reads like a scene out of a cybersecurity thriller, Microsoft has dropped the legal gauntlet on ten individuals allegedly operating a hacking-as-a-service (HaaS) scheme. This lawsuit, filed in federal court, zeroes in on their alleged illicit activities, which involved...

Microsoft, one of the tech world’s juggernauts, found itself entangled in yet another cybercrime crackdown, this time targeting a hacking-as-a-service scheme exploiting weaknesses in its Azure OpenAI services. The lawsuit, brought forward in Virginia’s Eastern District Court, accuses a group of...