threat detection

  1. Copilot Studio Enables Inline Real-Time Enforcement via External Monitors

    Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...
  2. Prisma SASE 4.0: AI-Driven Browser Security & SaaS Agent Governance

    Palo Alto Networks has pushed a clear marker in the SASE arms race with the launch of Prisma SASE 4.0, a major platform refresh that explicitly frames the next phase of enterprise security as AI versus AI — protecting organizations not only from AI-augmented attackers, but from the uncontrolled...
  3. CVE-2025-54914: Azure Networking Elevation-of-Privilege - Admin Guide

    Breaking Down CVE-2025-54914 — Azure Networking Elevation‑of‑Privilege (what admins need to know) Summary Microsoft has published a Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-54914, an elevation‑of‑privilege issue that Microsoft lists under its Azure Networking surface. Administrators should...
  4. CISA NSA FBI Warn PRC APT Attacks Target Global Router Infrastructure (Salt Typhoon)

    CISA and partner agencies have issued a sharply worded joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning that People’s Republic of China (PRC) state‑sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors have been compromising global telecommunications and critical‑infrastructure networks by targeting...
  5. Coordinated RDP Scans: Timing-Based Username Enumeration Targeting Education Sector

    Security researchers have observed a coordinated, large‑scale reconnaissance campaign probing Microsoft Remote Desktop services that began as a sudden one‑day spike and escalated into a torrent of scans — a pattern that looks less like opportunistic background noise and more like deliberate...
  6. Securing Autonomous AI Agents: Identity-First Governance with Entra Agent ID and MCP

    Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service...
  7. CISA Adds 3 KEV Exploited CVEs: Citrix Session Recording & Git Risks

    CISA’s August 25 alert that it has added three new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog should be treated as a red alert for IT teams: two significant issues in Citrix Session Recording (CVE-2024-8068 and CVE-2024-8069) and a client-side Git link-following vulnerability...
  8. Mitigating Malvertising and AI-Driven Threats: Windows Security in 2025

    This week’s wave of security headlines delivered a clear, uncomfortable message for Windows admins and security teams: the internet’s trust fabric is fraying in ways that let attackers hide inside legitimate flows — and Microsoft’s own infrastructure, link‑wrapping services, and even patch...
  9. CVE-2025-55231: Urgent Guidance on Windows Storage Management Race Condition RCE

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-55231 describing a race‑condition vulnerability in the Windows storage management stack that, according to the vendor entry, can be abused to achieve remote code execution — a high‑impact outcome that requires immediate...
  10. CVE-2025-53763: Azure Databricks Privilege Escalation and Mitigations

    Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) now lists CVE-2025-53763 as an improper access control vulnerability in Azure Databricks that can be exploited to achieve elevation of privilege over the network, a finding that demands urgent attention from cloud and data platform administrators...
  11. CVE-2025-7532: Local Token Leakage in FactoryTalk Action Manager

    A local information-disclosure flaw in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Action Manager allows unauthenticated local clients to receive a reusable API token broadcast over a WebSocket, creating a pathway for attackers with local access to intercept credentials and manipulate the product’s...
  12. August Patchday 2025: dMSA Kerberos Flaw Could Unlock Domain Admin — Patch Now

    Microsoft’s August Patchday reads like a wake‑up call: a newly disclosed Kerberos-related weakness tied to the delegated Managed Service Account (dMSA) feature in Windows Server 2025 can — under the right conditions — let an attacker escalate to domain‑admin control, and a clutch of additional...
  13. CVE-2025-53779: Kerberos Relative Path Traversal — Urgent Patch Guide

    Microsoft’s security advisory confirms a new Kerberos vulnerability — CVE-2025-53779 — described as a relative path traversal flaw in Windows Kerberos that can be abused by an authorized attacker over a network to elevate privileges, and organizations that rely on Kerberos-based authentication...
  14. CVE-2025-50157: Patch RRAS Memory Disclosure in Windows Server

    Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-50157 identifies a Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) flaw — described as the “use of an uninitialized resource” — that can allow an attacker to disclose sensitive information over a network; Microsoft has published an update and is urging...
  15. CVE-2025-53734: Visio Use-After-Free RCE - Patch Now to Prevent Exploitation

    Microsoft has confirmed a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Visio — tracked as CVE‑2025‑53734 — that can be triggered when a user opens a specially crafted Visio file and may allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current user; Microsoft’s advisory entry is live...
  16. CVE-2025-53736: Word Buffer Over-Read Information Disclosure—Patch Now

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53736 as a Microsoft Word information-disclosure vulnerability caused by a buffer over-read in Word that can allow an unauthorized local actor to read memory and disclose sensitive information on a victim machine; administrators are strongly...
  17. CVE-2025-53726: Patch Windows Push Notifications Type-Confusion Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-53726 warns that a type‑confusion bug in the Windows Push Notifications stack can allow an authorized local user to elevate privileges to SYSTEM, and administrators must treat the advisory as a high‑priority patching item while hardening detection and...
  18. CVE-2025-53724: Type Confusion in Windows Push Notifications Causes Local Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft’s security advisory identifies CVE-2025-53724 as an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Push Notifications Apps component that stems from an access of resource using incompatible type (type confusion); when triggered by a locally authorized user, the bug can be abused...
  19. CVE-2025-53718: Windows AFD.sys UAF Privilege Escalation — Patch, Detect, Harden

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-53718 describes a use‑after‑free (UAF) flaw in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) that can be triggered by a locally authorized user to obtain elevated privileges on affected Windows hosts — a kernel‑level...
  20. CVE-2025-53144: Patch MSMQ Type Confusion to Prevent Remote Code Execution

    Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53144, a vulnerability in Windows Message Queuing (MSMQ) described as an access of resource using incompatible type (a type confusion) that can allow an authorized attacker to execute code over a network; administrators should treat it as...