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Microsoft 365 Security

Security of Microsoft 365 and Entra ID tenants, including mailbox rules, OAuth grants and session revocation.

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productOne report1 publisher

Veeam argues AI agents force security and recovery into one discipline

Veeam made Intelligent ResOps generally available for Microsoft 365, with file-by-file undo of AI agent changes. Veeam's pitch is that agents acting at machine speed make security and recovery one job.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption15
Hype gap+35
Incentives75
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Proofpoint unveils four Microsoft 365 security features to help MSPs and customers adopt AI safely

Proofpoint will ship four Microsoft 365 security features to MSP partners in the fourth quarter, led by a tenant permission-risk map. Its argument is that oversharing and stale guest accounts need cleaning up before customers switch on AI tools, so the partner's first job is a cleanup.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence55
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Overe brings in former Sophos security chief Simon Reed to advise its MSP push

Overe, a three-year-old Microsoft 365 security vendor selling through MSPs, has named former Sophos CSO Simon Reed as a strategic advisor. The advisory seat puts a senior name in front of service providers while committing the company to far less than an executive hire would.

Publishers:itpro.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives75
Confidence60
securityConfirmed3 publishers

PREY-0058 phones executives to harvest Microsoft 365 session tokens

Arctic Wolf says the cluster it tracks as PREY-0058 deploys no malware at all. A call from fake IT leads to a proxied login page, and the stolen session token comes back from inside the victim's own ASN.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 17%
Operator
Operator 75%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
securityOne report1 publisher

Password spraying across more than 5,700 Chilean M365 accounts broke into only seven unused service accounts

Proofpoint says an unknown actor sprayed over 5,700 M365 accounts in Chile and breached only seven, all dormant service accounts at one retailer. Employee logins held, and those seven unused accounts still gave the attacker mail, Teams chats, OneDrive files and, in one case, the Azure portal.

Publishers:darkreading.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

An external app with user consent reads mail without holding an account in the tenant

Microsoft's guidance on illicit consent grants says password resets and MFA do not touch the access, and it sends admins to the Purview audit log, where the entry can take up to 24 hours to appear.

Publishers:learn.microsoft.com

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gapβˆ’12
Incentives58
Confidence66
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Blocking Kali365 means deciding which business processes still need device code flow

The FBI says a subscription kit sold on Telegram harvests Microsoft 365 OAuth tokens through device code lures. The mitigation it recommends is a tenant-wide block, and somebody has to decide the exceptions.

Publishers:fbi.gov

Reality

Evidence65
Adoption35
Hype gapβˆ’10
Incentives25
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

A passkey 'upgrade' call ends with the attacker's phone number registered as an MFA method

Microsoft Security Research describes callers posing as IT staff to get a Microsoft 365 session relayed or minted to their own client. The lasting damage comes from the MFA method they then register.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Direct Send carried 29,785 spoofed internal emails past the mail gateway in two months

KnowBe4's Threat Lab logged the messages across July and August 2026. None of them needed a stolen password to look like mail from HR or accounting, and a single send addressed 900 recipients. The report landed September 10.

Reality

Evidence57
Adoption54
Hype gap+14
Incentives68
Confidence56
buildOne report1 publisher

NovaCookies turns an MFA approval into a live Microsoft 365 session for $320

Island's write-up describes an adversary-in-the-middle proxy that hands passwords, push approvals and SMS codes to real Microsoft servers, then keeps the cookie Microsoft issues. Origin binding is the only listed control that breaks it.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption40
Hype gap+18
Incentives66
Confidence47