Building your cryptographic inventory: A customer strategy for cryptographic posture management

2026-04-17T02:52:20Z4cb1933b820f1fadd3f1922bb13f08c95d0ad9d4d8018e0d64764fc799bdcf55
AI in IRAI‑enabled phishingAndroid intent redirectionDNS hijackingForest BlizzardMFA bypassMedusa ransomwareNorth KoreaSOHO router compromiseSapphire SleetStorm-1175Storm-2755agentic SOCcryptographic inventorycryptographic posture managementdevice code phishingincident responsemacOS intrusionpayroll fraudphishing escalationquantum‑safethird‑party SDKthreat actor AI abusewalletsweb‑facing vulnerabilities

What happened

Collection of Microsoft Security Blog posts (Apr 2026) covering multiple active threats and defensive guidance: guidance for building a cryptographic inventory and improving quantum‑safe readiness; a detailed macOS intrusion by North Korean actor Sapphire Sleet that uses user‑driven execution and social engineering to steal credentials, crypto, and data; how AI changes incident response and SOC operations (including the agentic SOC concept); an emerging financially motivated “payroll pirate” actor (Storm‑2755) targeting Canadian employee accounts; a severe intent‑redirection vulnerability in a

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2026-04-17T02:52:20Z
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