New Microsoft Purview innovations for Fabric to safely accelerate your AI transformation

2026-03-17T20:52:25Zad705cbea8f14cb9c1faedebb85de111cda2988aed509c13884a395bfb8c65fe
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What happened

Collection of Microsoft Security Blog posts (Mar 2026) describing several active and emerging threats and related defensive guidance. Key items: Storm-2561 uses SEO poisoning to push fake VPN installers that deploy signed trojans and steal VPN credentials; the “Contagious Interview” campaign lures developers with fake job interviews to deliver backdoors (OtterCookie, FlexibleFerret) that exfiltrate API tokens, cloud credentials, crypto wallets, and source code; malicious AI assistant browser extensions harvested LLM chat histories and browsing data (nearly 900,000 installs, activity across >20

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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2026-03-17T20:52:25Z
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