Microsoft has announced significant improvements to its spam filtering capabilities within Outlook, aiming to reduce the amount of unwanted emails reaching users’ inboxes. These enhancements leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to better identify and block spam messages, providing a cleaner and more productive email experience. Key Improvements Improved Phishing Protection: Outlook’s spam filter…

Since June 2023, Microsoft has been tracking activity from multiple Chinese and North Korean nation-state groups. Our observations indicate that these threat actors are doubling down on familiar targets by using novel, more sophisticated influence techniques to achieve their goals. In China, cyber actors have broadly targeted entities across the South Pacific Islands, regional adversaries…

“As more and more apps are being offered to the public, there is a relative paucity of data on threats to those apps,” Shugrue said. “One of the goals of this report seeks to begin to remedy that situation.” The report also highlighted that gaming and financial services applications face the highest risk of attacks…