Security News > 2024 > May > Hackers Increasingly Abusing Microsoft Graph API for Stealthy Malware Communications

2024-05-03 12:35
Threat actors have been increasingly weaponizing Microsoft Graph API for malicious purposes with the aim of evading detection. This is done to "facilitate communications with command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure hosted on Microsoft cloud services," the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
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