Phishing in Azure Cloud: A Targeted Campaign on Executive Accounts

Originally published by Adaptive Shield.Written by Hananel Livneh.In recent weeks, a concerning wave of cyber attacks has been targeting Microsoft Azure environments, compromising crucial user accounts, including those of senior executives. Proofpoint researchers have identified an ongoing malicious campaign, which utilizes sophisticated techniques like credential phishing and cloud account takeover (ATO). This blog post will summarize and shed light on the nature of this attack. It will delv...

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