#azure
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Maia 300: Microsoft Bets on Its Own AI Silicon to Cut Nvidia Dependence
Microsoft has unveiled the third generation of its in-house Maia accelerator, meant to become the primary inference system for its products and to reduce its reliance on chips from Nvidia and AMD.
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JADEPUFFER-Linked Attackers Wiped Azure Resources via Compromised Service Principals
Microsoft has detailed a destructive cloud attack that unfolded over 18 hours in an Azure environment using two stolen service principals. The company ties it to the JADEPUFFER threat actor and calls it an evolution of its tradecraft.
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Microsoft Patches Azure AI Foundry Flaw With Maximum CVSS Score of 10.0
A critical hole has been found in the Azure AI Foundry platform that let an unauthenticated attacker elevate privileges over the network. Microsoft has already fixed the issue on its end — no customer action is required.
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GitHub blames its seven-hour August 17 outage on overloaded infrastructure
GitHub's CTO explained that the second major outage in August was caused not by a code bug but by a capacity shortfall: the service failed to scale in time for record traffic.
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Password-Spraying Attacks Surge 155-Fold Because of MFA Gaps
In the first half of 2026, Huntress recorded a 155-fold increase in password-spraying attacks. In just two weeks, one campaign generated over 81 million login attempts by exploiting legacy authentication and gaps in multi-factor protection policies.
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Hacker puts 3.6 million employee records from Fortune 500 Azure infrastructure up for sale
An attacker using the alias TheHatman claims to have siphoned employee databases from McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS and other corporations out of their Microsoft Azure tenants using compromised credentials. Some of the companies deny that any breach took place.
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CosmosEscape: An Azure Cosmos DB Flaw Opened the Door to Every Customer's Databases
Wiz researchers demonstrated an attack chain that led through a Gremlin sandbox escape to a platform key granting access to any Cosmos DB database. Microsoft has fixed the issue.
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Microsoft blames a network maintenance system bug for the massive Microsoft 365 outage
A bug in an automated maintenance-request system removed IP routes from more devices than intended, disrupting Azure and Microsoft 365.