For the first time in the history of Microsoft, a cyberattack has left hundreds of executive accounts compromised and caused a major user data leak as Microsoft Azure was attacked.

According to Proofpoint, the hackers use the malicious techniques that were discovered in November 2023. It includes credential theft through phishing methods and cloud account takeover (CTO) which helped the hackers gain access to both Microsoft365 applications as well as OfficeHome.

  • Sunforged@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Thank you. Security verification has become so cumbersome that people just try to push through without thinking.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, needing to sign back into multiple systems after doing something different for 15 minutes is just exhausting.