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Payroll Pirates: The Microsoft 365 Attack Your Alerts Miss
A Microsoft 365 session-hijacking campaign is reading payroll and finance mail while deliberately avoiding the account-modification signals most...
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Entra Risk Policies Retire Oct 1, 2026: What Banks Must Do
In This Article What actually changes on October 1 The self-service loop that goes away first The detections keep firing. No risk policy acts on...
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Hotel Wi-Fi Is Stealing Microsoft 365 Sessions
In This Article What Microsoft Found on Hotel and Conference Wi-Fi Two Attack Paths, and Why the Difference Decides Your Controls The Part That...
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Defender's New Password-Protected Attachment Quarantine: What Lenders Should Decide
Microsoft is adding an opt-in Safe Attachments setting that quarantines password-protected attachments Defender cannot scan or detonate. It is off by...
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AD FS Key Container Hardening: What Changes for Financial Institutions on October 13
The October 2026 Windows security update changes permissions on the AD FS Distributed Key Manager container by default. Here is what it removes,...
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Microsoft 365 Profile Cards: 11 Properties Go Visible
Microsoft is flipping eleven Microsoft 365 profile card properties from hidden to visible by default in late August 2026, including user principal...
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Microsoft Q2 2026 Threat Data: Teams Vishing Hit 10x While One Phishing Platform Collapsed
Microsoft's Q2 2026 email threat report shows Tycoon2FA phishing down 92% and invoice-themed BEC collapsing, while Teams vishing climbed to roughly...
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Cyber Insurance Requirements Mapped to Microsoft 365 for Financial Institutions
In This Article Cyber Coverage Became a Controls Exam What Carriers Actually Require Now The Control to Microsoft 365 Map Where Microsoft 365 Falls...
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Microsoft Entra Provisioning Flaw (CVE-2026-57100): What Financial Institutions Must Verify
Microsoft fixed a 9.9 elevation-of-privilege flaw (CVE-2026-57100) in the Microsoft Entra provisioning service server-side, with no customer patch....
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Microsoft 365 Incident Response Plan for Financial Institutions: The Examiner-Ready Playbook
A written incident response plan is examiner-mandated for banks, credit unions, and mortgage companies. Here are the seven elements it must cover and...
