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Microsoft sheds some light on Russian email heist – and how to learn from Redmond's mistakes
2024-01-27 00:32

Microsoft, a week after disclosing that Kremlin-backed spies broke into its network and stole internal emails and files from its executives and staff, has now confirmed the compromised corporate account used in the genesis of the heist didn't even have multi-factor authentication enabled. On Thursday, Redmond admitted Midnight Blizzard - a Moscow-supported espionage team also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear - "Utilized password spray attacks that successfully compromised a legacy, non-production test tenant account that did not have multifactor authentication enabled."

Microsoft Says State-Sponsored Attackers Accessed Senior Leaders’ Emails
2024-01-25 16:58

Microsoft disclosed on Jan. 19 that a nation-state backed attack occurred beginning in November 2023 in which the Russian state-sponsored threat actor group Midnight Blizzard accessed some Microsoft corporate emails and documents through compromised email accounts. The attackers gained access in November 2023 using a legacy test tenant account.

HPE joins the 'our executive email was hacked by Russia' club
2024-01-25 02:02

HPE has become the latest tech giant to admit it has been compromised by Russian operatives. HPE "Immediately activated our response process to investigate, contain, and remediate the incident, eradicating the activity."

HPE: Russian hackers breached its security team’s email accounts
2024-01-24 21:50

Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed today that suspected Russian hackers known as Midnight Blizzard gained access to the company's Microsoft Office 365 email environment to steal data from its cybersecurity team and other departments. In a new Form 8-K SEC filing, HPE says they were notified on December 12th that the suspected Russian hackers breached their cloud-based email environment in May 2023.

What Microsoft's latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight
2024-01-24 11:02

Microsoft declined to answer The Register's questions about the digital heist, or its security in general. This marks the second time since 2020 the same gang of Kremlin-backed cyber spies - whom Microsoft now calls Midnight Blizzard, used to track as Nobelium, and most call Cozy Bear - has invaded Microsoft.

Trello API abused to link email addresses to 15 million accounts
2024-01-23 21:31

An exposed Trello API allows linking private email addresses with Trello accounts, enabling the creation of millions of data profiles containing both public and private information. In a conversation with emo, BleepingComputer learned that a publicly exposed API was used to associate email addresses with public Trello profiles.

Organizations need to switch gears in their approach to email security
2024-01-23 04:00

Email security risks remain high with 94% of organizations experiencing incidents in the past 12 months, according to Egress. The impact of an email security incident can be severe for employees and their organizations.

Microsoft's Top Execs' Emails Breached in Sophisticated Russia-Linked APT Attack
2024-01-20 03:11

Microsoft on Friday revealed that it was the target of a nation-state attack on its corporate systems that resulted in the theft of emails and attachments from senior executives and other...

Russian hackers stole Microsoft corporate emails in month-long breach
2024-01-20 00:02

Microsoft disclosed Friday night that some of its corporate email accounts were breached and data stolen by the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Midnight Blizzard.Nobelium is a Russian state-sponsored actor believed to be behind the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack, which also impacted Microsoft.

Insurance website's buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove
2024-01-18 01:58

Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India, an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000 Microsoft-hosted email messages to customers, a security researcher has found. Zveare then examined the calculator web page on the TTIBI website and saw that it included a client-side function that created a request to send email using a server-side API. "This caught my eye because this was a client-side email sending mechanism," he wrote in a post describing his findings.