Threat actors misuse OAuth applications to automate financially driven attacks
Microsoft Threat Intelligence presents cases of threat actors misusing OAuth applications as automation tools in financially motivated attacks.
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Star Blizzard increases sophistication and evasion in ongoing attacks
Microsoft Threat Intelligence continues to track and disrupt malicious activity attributed to a Russian state-sponsored actor we track as Star Blizzard, who has continuously improved their detection evasion capabilities while remaining focused on email credential theft against targets. -
Social engineering attacks lure Indian users to install Android banking trojans
Microsoft has observed ongoing activity from mobile banking trojan campaigns targeting users in India with social media messages and malicious applications designed to impersonate legitimate organizations and steal users’ information for financial fraud scams. -
Octo Tempest crosses boundaries to facilitate extortion, encryption, and destruction
Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for many organizations across multiple industries. Go beyond data protection with Microsoft Purview
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Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard (previously tracked as NOBELIUM). -
The five-day job: A BlackByte ransomware intrusion case study
In a recent investigation by Microsoft Incident Response of a BlackByte 2. -
MERCURY and DEV-1084: Destructive attack on hybrid environment
Microsoft detected a unique operation where threat actors carried out destructive actions in both on-premises and cloud environments. -
Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2023-23397
This guide provides steps organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2023-23397. Streamline privacy management with Microsoft Priva
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Microsoft Security Experts discuss evolving threats in roundtable chat
Get an in-depth recap of the latest Microsoft Security Experts Roundtable, featuring discussions on trends in global cybercrime, cyber-influence operations, cybersecurity for manufacturing and Internet of Things, and more. -
DEV-0569 finds new ways to deliver Royal ransomware, various payloads
DEV-0569’s recent activity shows their reliance on malvertising and phishing in delivering malicious payloads. -
Token tactics: How to prevent, detect, and respond to cloud token theft
As organizations increase their coverage of multifactor authentication (MFA), threat actors have begun to move to more sophisticated techniques to allow them to compromise corporate resources without needing to satisfy MFA. -
New “Prestige” ransomware impacts organizations in Ukraine and Poland
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has identified evidence of a novel ransomware campaign attributed to IRIDIUM targeting organizations in the logistics and transportation industry in Ukraine and Poland utilizing a previously unidentified ransomware payload.
