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ARMORY CASTLE Exploits BeyondTrust

Written by: Jayson Frost, Bryce Greathouse, Brian Meyer, John Palmisano, Rajesh Rajeshirke, Steve Rasch, John Wolfram Introduction On October 15, BeyondTrust disclosed a vulnerability, CVE-2026-102764, impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) app

Investigating Ephemeral Supply Chain Tampering

Written by: Tyler McLellan Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant investigated a software supply chain compromise campaign targeting the update infrastructure belonging to AOMEI Technology between April 2026 and July 2026. The threat

CISA, FBI, NSA and International Partners Warn of China-based Cybersecurity Company Enabling Threat Actors to Target Multiple Critical Infrastructure Sectors Worldwide

CISA Launches Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Securing the Next 250

Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation Trends in the AI Era

Written by: Robin Grunewald, Supriya Mazumdar, Kelli Vanderlee Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) examines vulnerability disclosure and exploitation statistics to evaluate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the vulnerability threat

Defending Against Active Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Appliances

Introduction In late September 2026, Mandiant Consulting and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified active, in-the-wild exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-88772) affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances. We ha

Managing open-weight model risk in enterprise deployments

New whitepaper from Microsoft and NVIDIA helps enterprises manage open-weight AI model risks with a shared taxonomy, evaluations, and controls. The post Managing open-weight model risk in enterprise deployments appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

We're building operational consistency through Azure and Azure Arc, and infrastructure consistency through Hyper-V. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blo

The hidden network: Inside the phishing infrastructure ecosystem powering global cybercrime

Microsoft uncovered a Chinese-language cybercriminal ecosystem, an interconnected network of phishing kit operators (tracked as Storm-2990), and an illicit marketplace (tracked as Storm-3119) selling tools and infrastructure for large-scale phishing. In collab

Advancing hardware security with open-source Integrated HSM technology

Explore how Microsoft is advancing hardware security through open-source Integrated HSM technology, collaboration, and cryptographic key protection. The post Advancing hardware security with open-source Integrated HSM technology appeared first on Microsoft Azu

Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration

AI is reaching such a pivotal moment, and the focus is shifting from building larger frontier models to intelligence that delivers practical impact. The post Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration appeared

Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture

Maia 300 operates as a single platform to meet the demands of cloud-scale agentic inference. The post Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Amazon CloudWatch log centralization now available in AWS GovCloud and additional commercial Regions

Amazon CloudWatch log centralization is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) and 13 additional commercial Regions. CloudWatch log centralization copies log data from multiple AWS accounts and Regions into a single destination account, integrating with AWS Organi

AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Lambda durable functions enable developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience. Lambd

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This vision-language model from the Nemotron 3.5 family accepts images, video, and text as input and generat

Beam model by Reflection is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Trainium

Beam, the first open weight model offered by US-based Reflection, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, the model hub in Amazon SageMaker AI. According to Beam, they operate at the frontier of open weight models in its class, with strong performance

AWS Transform announces Azure-to-AWS cloud-native code conversion

Today, AWS announced the general availability of application code conversion from Azure SDK to AWS SDK in AWS Transform, giving you an accelerated path to migrate Microsoft Azure cloud-native .NET applications to AWS. The AWS Transform .NET modernization agent

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now supported in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly consistent hybrid experi