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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical vulnerability affecting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on Wednesday, citing evidence of active exploitation.
Microsoft announced this week it is accelerating its quantum-safe security roadmap, moving the target date for replacing current encryption standards to 2029. This adjustment is driven by rapid advancements in quantum computing research and development, which are shortening the perceived…
Microsoft Incident Response researchers have identified a vulnerability where attackers can manipulate AI agents into leaking sensitive company data. This exploit involves "poisoning" the descriptions of tools that AI agents use to perform tasks.
Treating artificial intelligence agents as "coworkers" can negatively impact human performance, with managers making 18% more errors when work is attributed to an "AI employee" rather than a chatbot. This finding comes from research conducted by Boston University professor Emma…
Greater Zurich Area, encompassing several Swiss cantons and cities, has emerged as a significant global center for artificial intelligence research and development over the past two decades. This region, with a population of just over 400,000, hosts R&D operations…
Microsoft discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that impersonated the AI search engine Perplexity, secretly capturing user search queries and address bar input. The extension, identified as "Perplexity", routed all user searches and typed characters through a server controlled…
Framing artificial intelligence agents as "coworkers" or "employees" rather than software tools can negatively impact human performance and lead to unrealistic expectations, according to research by Boston University business professor Emma Wiles.
Microsoft removed 119 malicious extensions from the Edge Add-ons store this week, an operation that had been active since at least 2021. These extensions employed steganography to conceal their malicious payloads within seemingly ordinary image and font files.
Microsoft reported an active phishing campaign targeting hospitality organizations in Europe and Asia since April 2026, employing photo-themed ZIP files to deploy a Node.js implant on front-desk systems. The campaign, which Microsoft has not attributed to a specific known threat…