Microsoft Azure Hit With The Largest Data Breach In Its History; Hundreds Of Executive Accounts Compromised - eviltoast

For the first time in the history of Microsoft, a cyberattack has left hundreds of executive accounts compromised and caused a major user data leak as Microsoft Azure was attacked.

According to Proofpoint, the hackers use the malicious techniques that were discovered in November 2023. It includes credential theft through phishing methods and cloud account takeover (CTO) which helped the hackers gain access to both Microsoft365 applications as well as OfficeHome.

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    10 months ago

    Microsoft, and all the cybersecurity folks who blindly accept any recommendation from third party firms.

    When we need to remote in to our work PCs we have to use our Microsoft account with MFA just to access the remote connections, then use the same credentials to access the pool, then if we want to RDP into our PC we use the same credentials.