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- Microsoft attributes a ConnectWise supply-chain attack to Storm-0940, which it says automated the campaign with the ARTEX agentic AI framework
Microsoft Threat Intelligence says China-state-aligned Storm-0940 used ARTEX, an open-source agentic AI penetration-testing framework, to automate reconnaissance and abuse a compromised ConnectWise Cloud Backup app credential against hundreds of organizations' Microsoft 365 tenants. Microsoft lists remediation steps for affected customers.
- Microsoft forms Xbox Labs to experiment with AI-powered game decompiling and recompiling, per The Verge
The Verge reports that Microsoft has created a new Xbox Labs group to experiment with decompiling and recompiling games, the techniques fans have used, increasingly with AI help, to port classic titles to new devices or merge code from different games. Microsoft has seen fan projects such as skateboarding modded into Call of Duty and Halo running in a web browser.
- Microsoft explains how it keeps LLM-as-judge costs down in Foundry evaluations
A Microsoft Foundry blog post says every evaluation run is a stack of LLM-as-judge calls, with the service handling hundreds of thousands of judge calls a day and billions of prompt tokens in a two-week window, and argues the judge's token bill should be architected as a systems concern rather than treated as a line item.
- Microsoft outlines how Azure services give visibility and guardrails over AI agents in Foundry
A Microsoft Foundry blog post says developers are shipping agents faster than security teams can catalog them, and walks through how Azure services can establish visibility, guardrails and cost accountability as organizations move from pilots to running dozens or hundreds of agents.