Solving one of NOBELIUM’s most novel attacks: Cyberattack Series

Our story begins with eight Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) analysts gathered around a customer’s conference room to solve a cybersecurity mystery. Joined by members of the customer’s cybersecurity team, they were there to figure out how a Russia-based nation-state hacking group known as NOBELIUM had bypassed authentication checks and impersonated users to gain access to its data. This attack, later known as MagicWeb, wasn’t so much a whodunit as a how-done-it.

To discover potential security threats like MagicWeb, …

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