Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

The Miasma worm compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repos, spreading via AI coding tools and stealing cloud credentials from developers and CI/CD systems. A self-replicating worm called Miasma has compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories and forced GitHub staff to disable them. The affected repos include core Azure infrastructure like azure-functions-host and the entire Durable Task family […]

CEO Satya Nadella Highlights DeepSeek-R1 Model, AI Cost Reductions, Future GrowthMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI scaling laws, compounded by Moore’s Law, are accelerating efficiency gains, with a 10x improvement per model generation. He revealed Microsoft’s strategy for optimizing AI costs and highlights DeepSeek-R1’s availability on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub.

The Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked dozens of terabytes of sensitive data while contributing open-source AI learning models to a public GitHub repository. [...]