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Azure News - September 1st, 2025
Top 3 Recent Microsoft Azure News Summaries
1. Microsoft Bolsters Azure Servers with Custom Security Chips - Microsoft announced at the Hot Chips 2025 conference that every server powering Azure will now include custom-designed security chips—Integrated HSM, combined with Azure Boost, Hydra BMC, and Caliptra 2.0 technologies. This hardware-level move aims to safeguard customers against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, especially given that cybercrime is estimated at $10 trillion globally, rivaling the economies of major nations.
2. Microsoft to Enforce Mandatory MFA for Azure Resource Management - Starting October 1, 2025, Microsoft will begin enforcing multi‑factor authentication (MFA) for all actions involving Azure resource management—covering Azure CLI, PowerShell, SDKs, APIs, and more. This initiative rolls out globally under the Secure Future Initiative (SFI). To ease compliance, administrators can delay implementation until July 2026 and are urged to upgrade to Azure CLI v2.76+ and Azure PowerShell v14.3+.
3. Microsoft Warns of Storm‑0501: Cloud‑Focused Cybercriminal Group - Microsoft has issued an alert about Storm‑0501, a threat group now leveraging cloud environments to target organizations. These actors exploit synced identities from on‑prem Active Directory to Azure Entra ID, bypass MFA, deploy backdoors, misuse SAML tokens, and ransom victims via Microsoft Teams. They also abuse Azure tools like AzureHound and AzCopy, and Azure Key Vault to breach and encrypt data. Microsoft recommends MFA enforcement, limiting sync permissions, applying TPM, implementing resource locks, and using Defender tools and advanced logging for protection.
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