Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends
This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking In the second half of 2021, the world experienced an unprecedented level of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) activity in both complexity and ... continue reading
Destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has identified evidence of a destructive malware operation targeting multiple organizations in Ukraine. This malware first appeared on victim systems in Ukraine on January 13, 2022. Microsoft is aware of the ongoing geopolitical events in ... continue reading
What you need to know about how cryptography impacts your security strategy
The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest post of our Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Security Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla ... continue reading
The final report on NOBELIUM’s unprecedented nation-state attack
This is the final post in a four-part series on the NOBELIUM nation-state cyberattack. In December 2020, Microsoft began sharing details with the world about what became known as the most sophisticated nation-state cyberattack in history. Microsoft’s four-part video series ... continue reading
Best practices for AI security risk management
Today, we are releasing an AI security risk assessment framework as a step to empower organizations to reliably audit, track, and improve the security of the AI systems. In addition, we are providing new updates to Counterfit, our open-source tool ... continue reading
New satellite connectivity and geospatial capabilities with Azure Space
Figure 1: Azure Space ecosystem showing multi-orbits and geospatial capabilities through Machine Learning. Last year, Microsoft announced Azure Space, bringing together the possibilities of Space with the power of the cloud to help people and organizations achieve more on and ... continue reading
NICKEL targeting government organizations across Latin America and Europe
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed NICKEL, a China-based threat actor, targeting governments, diplomatic entities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) across Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. MSTIC has been tracking NICKEL since 2016 and ... continue reading
Using Azure Bicep to Deploy SQL MI into an Existing Virtual Network
Recently, I was working with a customer who wanted to deploy SQL Managed Instance (MI) into an existing virtual network with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Having some experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, I decided to fulfill their request ... continue reading
5 reasons Azure Databricks is best for Hadoop workloads
Due to the complexity, high cost of operations, and unscalable infrastructure, on-premises Hadoop platforms have often not delivered on their initial promises to impact business value. As a result, many enterprises are now seeking to modernize their Hadoop platforms to ... continue reading
Iranian targeting of IT sector on the rise
Iranian threat actors are increasing attacks against IT services companies as a way to access their customers’ networks. This activity is notable because targeting third parties has the potential to exploit more sensitive organizations by taking advantage of trust and ... continue reading
