Storm-0501: Ransomware attacks expanding to hybrid cloud environments

Microsoft has observed the threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 launching a multi-staged attack where they compromised hybrid cloud environments and performed lateral movement from on-premises to cloud environment, leading to data exfiltration, credential theft, tampering, persistent backdoor access, and ransomware deployment. The said attack targeted multiple sectors in the United States, including government, manufacturing, transportation, […]

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A year of DAX Copilot: Healthcare innovation that refocuses on the clinician-patient connection

In 2012, a child’s drawing of her appointment with a physician was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In the brightly colored sketch, the girl is sitting on the exam table accompanied by her mother and siblings. To those of us working in healthcare, her doctor is the most notable part…

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Announcing the public preview of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines

Today, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines (VMs), based on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor. The preview includes the Compute-optimized VMs FXmsv2-series and … Continue reading Announcing the public preview of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines

Migrate to Azure Sphere (Integrated) ahead of Sept 2027 retirement of Legacy service interface

On 27 September 2027, Azure Sphere will retire its Legacy service interfaces, Azure Sphere (Legacy) API (also known as PAPI), and Azure Sphere CLI (also known as azsphere). If you have not already done so, you must migrate to Azure Sphere (Integrated) … Continue reading Migrate to Azure Sphere (Integrated) ahead of Sept 2027 retirement of Legacy service interface

The Azure SQL database export/import process might sometimes take a lot of time

We have some cases when our customers have reported experiencing delays during their export/import activities on the portal. I’d like to take this opportunity  to explain the reasons behind this and offer some recommendations to optimize thes… Continue reading The Azure SQL database export/import process might sometimes take a lot of time

Microsoft Research Forum Episode 4: The future of multimodal models, a new “small” language model, and other AI updates

Explore multimodal & small language models, plus advanced benchmarks for AI evaluation. Microsoft researchers are working on breakthroughs in weather prediction, materials design, even a new kind of computer for AI inference and hard optimization problems.

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