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Securing our future: April 2025 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative 

The Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) stands as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history and most extensive effort of its kind at Microsoft. Now, we are sharing the second SFI progress report, which highlights progress made in our multi-year journey to improve the security posture of Microsoft, our customers, and the industry at large.

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Stopping attacks against on-premises Exchange Server and SharePoint Server with AMSI 

Exchange Server and SharePoint Server are business-critical assets and considered crown-jewels for many organizations, making them attractive targets for attacks. To help customers protect their environments and respond to these attacks, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server integrated Windows Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), providing an essential layer of protection by preventing harmful web requests from reaching backend endpoints. The blog outlines several attacks prevented by AMSI integration and highlights recent enhancements. The blog also provides protection and mitigation guidance and how defenders can respond.

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Exploitation of CLFS zero-day leads to ransomware activity 

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have discovered post-compromise exploitation of a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) against a small number of targets. Microsoft released security updates to address the vulnerability, tracked as CVE 2025-29824, on April 8, 2025.