Storm-0978 attacks reveal financial and espionage motives
Microsoft has identified a phishing campaign conducted by the threat actor tracked as Storm-0978 targeting defense and government entities in Europe and North America. The campaign involved the abuse of CVE-2023-36884, which included a remote code execution vulnerability exploited before ... continue reading
Patch me if you can: Cyberattack Series
Many organizations utilize third-party apps for identity security solutions to automate and unburden overtaxed IT admins from tedious tasks that employees can perform via self-service without IT assistance. But in September 2021, our researchers observed threat actors exploiting one such ... continue reading
Azure Virtual WAN introduces its first SaaS offering
Today we are excited to announce the preview of Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) for Azure, available as a software as a service (SaaS) offering in Azure Virtual WAN. Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN), networking as a service ... continue reading
Microsoft sponsors OWASP ModSecurity CRS to improve application security
This post was co-authored by Henry Yan, Product Marketing Manager. Increased cloud adoption and the shift to hybrid work has resulted in increased usage of digital assets. While moving web applications and APIs to the cloud provides many advantages for ... continue reading
Analyzing attacks using the Exchange vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082
October 1, 2022 update – Added information about Exploit:Script/ExchgProxyRequest.A, Microsoft Defender AV’s robust detection for exploit behavior related to this threat. We also removed a section on MFA as a mitigation, which was included in a prior version of this ... continue reading
Tarrask malware uses scheduled tasks for defense evasion
As Microsoft continues to track the high-priority state-sponsored threat actor HAFNIUM, new activity has been uncovered that leverages unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities as initial vectors. The Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) in collaboration with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) ... continue reading
Detect active network reconnaissance with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
The Microsoft Compromise Recovery Security Practice has observed how the security industry has evolved over the last few years as consumers, businesses, and industry professionals continue to adapt to the changing landscape. We have seen the emergence of new frameworks, ... continue reading
Bastion 101 – Connections with Confidence
Lately, I have been spending a lot of time working with Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) debugging some ways to deploy applications. Sometimes when troubleshooting a problem, it helps to have administrative access directly to the server. Finding solutions to avoid ... continue reading
Defend against zero-day exploits with Microsoft Defender Application Guard
Zero-day security vulnerabilities—known to hackers, but unknown to software creators, security researchers, and the public—are like gold to attackers. With zero-days, or even zero-hours, developers have no time to patch the code, giving hackers enough access and time to explore ... continue reading
Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q1 and Q2 DDoS attack trends
This blog post was co-authored by Amir Dahan, Senior Program Manager, Anupam Vij, Principal Program Manager, Skye Zhu, Data and Applied Scientist 2, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking. In our 2020 retrospective, we highlighted shifts in the ... continue reading
