Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
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What happened
This Microsoft Security Blog feed (June–July 2026) highlights: progress on the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) — secure foundations, AI‑powered defense, and continuous cloud hardening at AI speed; an in‑depth analysis of GigaWiper, a destructive backdoor that merges wiping and ransomware capabilities and reuses code from multiple families (with detection/mitigation guidance); risks and mitigations for AI agents (MCP tool‑poisoning that can trigger unauthorized actions and data loss); a malicious Chromium extension spoofing Perplexity AI that redirects browser search via MV3 APIs; CSPM evolution
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