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File hosting services misused for identity phishing

October 8, 2024 TH Author Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM), Credential Theft, token theft

Since mid-April 2024, Microsoft has observed an increase in defense evasion tactics used in campaigns abusing file hosting services like SharePoint, OneDrive, and Dropbox. These campaigns use sophisticated techniques to perform social engineering, evade detection, and compromise identities, and include business email compromise (BEC) attacks.
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Storm-0501: Ransomware attacks expanding to hybrid cloud environments

September 26, 2024 TH Author Credential Theft, ransomware, ransomware as a service, Storm

Microsoft has observed the threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 launching a multi-staged attack where they compromised hybrid cloud environments and performed lateral movement from on-premises to cloud environment, leading to data exfiltration, credential theft, tampering, persistent backdoor access, and ransomware deployment. The said attack targeted multiple sectors in the United States, including government, manufacturing, transportation, […]
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“Dirty stream” attack: Discovering and mitigating a common vulnerability pattern in Android apps

May 1, 2024 TH Author Android, Credential Theft, remote code execution

Microsoft discovered a vulnerability pattern in multiple popular Android applications that could enable a malicious application to overwrite files in the vulnerable application’s internal data storage directory, which could lead to arbitrary code execution and token theft, among other impacts. We have shared our findings with Google’s Android Application Security Research team, as well as the developers of apps found vulnerable to this issue. We anticipate that the vulnerability pattern could be found in other applications. We’re sharing this research more broadly so developers and publishers can check their apps for similar issues, fix as appropriate, and prevent them from being introduced into new apps or releases.
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Threat actors misuse OAuth applications to automate financially driven attacks

December 12, 2023 TH Author Credential Theft, Cryptocurrency mining, Storm

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

December 7, 2023 TH Author Blizzard, Credential Theft, Star Blizzard (SEABORGIUM), State-sponsored threat actor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence continues to track and disrupt malicious activity attributed to a Russian state-sponsored actor we track as Star Blizzard, who has improved their detection evasion capabilities since 2022 while remaining focused on email credential theft against targets.
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Social engineering attacks lure Indian users to install Android banking trojans

November 21, 2023 TH Author Android, Credential Theft

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.
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Octo Tempest crosses boundaries to facilitate extortion, encryption, and destruction

October 25, 2023 TH Author Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM), Credential Theft, elevation of privilege, extortion, human-operated ransomware, ransomware as a service, Tempest

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.
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Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

August 2, 2023 TH Author Credential Theft, Midnight Blizzard (NOBELIUM)

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).
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Detecting and preventing LSASS credential dumping attacks

October 5, 2022 TH Author credential dumping, Credential Theft, Cybersecurity, Microsoft security intelligence

LSASS credential dumping is becoming prevalent, especially with the rise of human-operated ransomware. In May 2022, Microsoft participated in an evaluation conducted by AV-Comparatives specifically on detecting and blocking this attack technique and we’re happy to report that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint achieved 100% detection and prevention scores.
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