All news with #azure app service tag

🔷 Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, marking its third consecutive year in that quadrant. The post highlights how Azure’s platform consolidates application modernization, AI toolchains, operations, and security into a single foundation. It describes services like Azure App Service, Container Apps, Azure Functions, and API Management as core components enabling production AI workloads and agentic applications. Customer examples illustrate real-world production usage and operational impact.

🔍 Check Point Research reports that Iranian-linked actor Nimbus Manticore has escalated cyber-espionage operations across Western Europe, with heightened targeting of organizations in Denmark, Sweden and Portugal. Attackers impersonate recruiters and use convincing fake career portals to deliver personalized credentials and malicious archives. The campaign leverages evolved backdoors—first seen as Minibike, now observed as MiniJunk and MiniBrowse—and employs multi-stage DLL sideloading into legitimate Windows binaries, including Microsoft Defender components, alongside valid code-signing certificates and compiler-level obfuscation to evade detection. Infrastructure hosted via Azure App Service and shielded by Cloudflare provides redundancy and rapid command-and-control recovery.