Security News
Microsoft warned customers they might experience up to 30 minutes of black screens when logging into Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) after installing the KB5040525 Windows 10 July 2024 preview update. [...]
Multiple popular mobile applications for iOS and Android come with hardcoded, unencrypted credentials for cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, exposing...
Microsoft is using deceptive tactics against phishing actors by spawning realistic-looking honeypot tenants with access to Azure and lure cybercriminals in to collect intelligence about them. [...]
Ransomware gangs like BianLian and Rhysida increasingly use Microsoft's Azure Storage Explorer and AzCopy to steal data from breached networks and store it in Azure Blob storage. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw impacting Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to escalate their privileges and...
Microsoft is making multi-factor authentication - "One of the most effective security measures available" - mandatory for all Azure sign-ins. October 2024: MFA will be required to sign-in to Azure portal, Microsoft Entra admin center, and Intune admin center Early 2025: MFA required for signing in for Azure Command Line Interface, Azure PowerShell, Azure mobile app and Infrastructure as Code tools.
A clever disinformation campaign engages several Microsoft Azure and OVH cloud subdomains as well as Google search to promote malware and spam sites. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two security flaws in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service that, if exploited, could permit a malicious actor to achieve lateral movement within customer environments and access sensitive patient data. The critical issues, now patched by Microsoft, could have allowed access to cross-tenant resources within the service, Tenable said in a new report shared with The Hacker News.
Microsoft has mitigated an Azure outage that lasted more than two hours and took down multiple services for customers across North and Latin America. [...]
The Azure outage had global reach, impacting a subset of customers attempting to connect to Azure App Services, Application Insights, Azure IoT Central, Azure Log Search Alerts, Azure Policy, the Azure portal itself, and a subset of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview services. Many different organisations made statements on Tuesday, notifying users that their services were disrupted as a result of the Azure DDoS attack.