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Exposing POLONIUM activity and infrastructure targeting Israeli organizations

Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft successfully detected and disabled attack activity abusing OneDrive by a previously undocumented Lebanon-based activity group Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) tracks as POLONIUM.

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Microsoft collaborates with Tenable to support federal cybersecurity efforts

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In the spirit of the executive order and as part of our commitment to enhancing cybersecurity across the US, we today announce that Tenable has expanded its collaboration with the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). Together, Microsoft and Tenable will help enhance the US government’s ability to quickly identify, investigate, prioritize, and remediate threats—and help collectively raise the country’s security posture.

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Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Credit to Author: Paul Oliveria| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICpy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. It aims to help threat analysts acquire, enrich, analyze, and visualize data.

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Secure access for a connected world—meet Microsoft Entra

Credit to Author: Emma Jones| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Identity is not just about directories, and access is not just about the network. Security challenges have become much broader, so we need broader solutions. We need to secure access for every customer, partner, and employee—and for every microservice, sensor, network, device, and database.

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