Microsoft Defender email security benchmarking: Key insights from one year of data

2026-06-16T08:52:15Z4396e23bfe6dd26d1b91244f046ce9ba9632aa46bb5deb9886ac5f400a8c813d
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What happened

Microsoft Security Blog posts (June 2026) cover multiple high-risk observations and guidance: email security benchmarking results for Microsoft Defender; ASSERT, an open-source framework to convert natural-language specs into executable AI evaluations; a telemetry-driven playbook for reconstructing AI activity in investigations; threat actors leveraging AI brands as social-engineering lures; a prompt-injection pathway in the Claude Code GitHub Action that could expose workflow secrets and the disclosure/mitigation timeline; an updated taxonomy of failure modes for agentic AI from a year of red

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2026-06-16T08:52:15Z
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