Security News > 2022 > March > Phishing uses Azure Static Web Pages to impersonate Microsoft

Phishing attacks are abusing Microsoft Azure's Static Web Apps service to steal Microsoft, Office 365, Outlook, and OneDrive credentials.
Azure Static Web Apps is a Microsoft service that helps build and deploy full-stack web apps to Azure from GitHub or Azure DevOps code repositories.
As shown below, some of the landing pages and login forms used in these phishing campaigns look almost exactly like official Microsoft pages.
Using the Azure Static Web Apps platform to target Microsoft users is an excellent tactic.
This will likely trick even the most suspicious targets after seeing the certificate issued by Microsoft Azure TLS Issuing CA 05 to *.1.azurestaticapps.net, thus validating the phishing page as an official Microsoft login form in the eyes of potential victims.
The phishing campaigns abusing Azure Static Web Apps make this advice almost worthless since many users will get tricked by the azurestaticapps.net subdomain and the valid TLS certificate.
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