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Microsoft says companies should treat AI agents as insiders, and is adding controls that grant access per task and tighten it as an agent’s risk rises.
SecurityWeek
Microsoft announced that IT administrators can now use quick machine recovery on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update.
BleepingComputer
Microsoft’s Guardian Agents in Project Perception adapt as agent activity, risk, security context and organizational policy change. They help security teams understand why risk changed, investigate relevant evidence, recommend or apply containment measures and use what they learn to strengthen policies. People retain control over objectives and consequential decisions. Microsoft announced the Guardian Agents and…
Help Net Security
Microsoft urges organizations to secure AI Agents as insider threats, using dynamic permissions, continuous risk monitoring and automated containment. Microsoft published a detailed blog post explaining how organizations should secure AI agents. Microsoft sees them as a growing insider threat, not just a possible risk in the future. AI agents are not dangerous by nature,…
Security Affairs+1 source
A large-scale scam operation impersonating Microsoft uses a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian organization and abuses thousands of Cloudflare links.
Dark Reading
Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused games and apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding to crash after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 preview update (KB5124010).
BleepingComputer
American software company ConnectWise is contending with a security incident that has allowed unknown attackers to use its application identities to break into organizations’ Microsoft 365 accounts. The intruders used a compromised credential belonging to the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application, formerly known as SkyKick. This spurred the company to temporarily suspend the backup service, as…
Help Net Security+2 sources
New capabilities in Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception help organizations contain agent risk and adapt protection continuously.
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that removed the Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons in the classic Outlook desktop mail client for some Windows users.
BleepingComputer
Microsoft and Nvidia are urging enterprises to assess the security of open-weight AI models throughout deployment, warning that changes to model weights and configurations can weaken safeguards even when a model retains its ability to perform assigned tasks. In a joint paper published last week, the companies identified 30 risk types across five categories and…
CSO Online UK
ConnectWise has disabled key cloud services and is investigating unauthorized access to customers’ Microsoft 365 environments after a credential tied to its Cloud Backup platform was compromised and used to authenticate into customer tenants, prompting Huntress to identify suspicious sign-ins across 162 organizations. The activity involved the Cloud Backup application obtaining Microsoft Graph access tokens…
CSO Online UK
Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four times the share of any other brand. Top 10 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks (Source: Check Point) Apple and Google followed with 8% each. Dropbox…
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