Improving security posture across the Microsoft partner ecosystem

2026-07-06T02:52:13Z0af301e2180b4df06ece33c2da4ea9091f0b79a46514804d78c0fc680813103c
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What happened

Microsoft Security Blog (late June–early July 2026) published a set of posts covering both strategic security initiatives and active threat intelligence. Topics include strengthening partner-ecosystem security (CSP vetting, least-privilege, monitoring), accelerating quantum-safe readiness, CNAPP/cloud risk management and endpoint/runtime security recognitions, plus technical threat reports: MCP tool poisoning and securing AI agents, a malicious Chromium extension spoofing Perplexity AI that redirects searches via MV3 APIs, an active Photo‑ZIP campaign delivering a persistent Node.js implant to

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2026-07-06T02:52:13Z
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