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Malicious 'SNS Sender' Script Abuses AWS for Bulk Smishing Attacks

By Newsroom — February 16th 2024 at 10:49
A malicious Python script known as SNS Sender is being advertised as a way for threat actors to send bulk smishing messages by abusing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Notification Service (SNS). The SMS phishing messages are designed to propagate malicious links that are designed to capture victims' personally identifiable information (PII) and payment card details, SentinelOne 
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Experts Detail New Flaws in Azure HDInsight Spark, Kafka, and Hadoop Services

By Newsroom — February 6th 2024 at 14:02
Three new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Azure HDInsight's Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark services that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation and a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) condition. "The new vulnerabilities affect any authenticated user of Azure HDInsight services such as Apache Ambari and Apache Oozie," Orca security
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Microsoft Warns of Cyber Attacks Attempting to Breach Cloud via SQL Server Instance

By Newsroom — October 4th 2023 at 10:18
Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through an SQL Server instance. "The attackers initially exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an application within the target's environment," security researchers Sunders Bruskin, Hagai Ran Kestenberg, and Fady Nasereldeen said in a Tuesday report. "This allowed the
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Researchers Detail 8 Vulnerabilities in Azure HDInsight Analytics Service

By THN — September 13th 2023 at 13:31
More details have emerged about a set of now-patched cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the Microsoft Azure HDInsight open-source analytics service that could be weaponized by a threat actor to carry out malicious activities. "The identified vulnerabilities consisted of six stored XSS and two reflected XSS vulnerabilities, each of which could be exploited to perform unauthorized actions,
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Banking Sector Targeted in Open-Source Software Supply Chain Attacks

By THN — July 24th 2023 at 07:24
Cybersecurity researchers said they have discovered what they say is the first open-source software supply chain attacks specifically targeting the banking sector. "These attacks showcased advanced techniques, including targeting specific components in web assets of the victim bank by attaching malicious functionalities to it," Checkmarx said in a report published last week. "The attackers
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Azure AD Token Forging Technique in Microsoft Attack Extends Beyond Outlook, Wiz Reports

By THN — July 21st 2023 at 15:14
The recent attack against Microsoft's email infrastructure by a Chinese nation-state actor referred to as Storm-0558 is said to have a broader scope than previously thought. According to cloud security company Wiz, the inactive Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key used to forge Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD) tokens to gain illicit access to Outlook Web Access (OWA) and
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Microsoft Bug Allowed Hackers to Breach Over Two Dozen Organizations via Forged Azure AD Tokens

By THN — July 15th 2023 at 06:41
Microsoft on Friday said a validation error in its source code allowed for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tokens to be forged by a malicious actor known as Storm-0558 using a Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key to breach two dozen organizations. "Storm-0558 acquired an inactive MSA consumer signing key and used it to forge authentication tokens for Azure AD enterprise and MSA
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TeamTNT's Cloud Credential Stealing Campaign Now Targets Azure and Google Cloud

By THN — July 14th 2023 at 10:12
A malicious actor has been linked to a cloud credential stealing campaign in June 2023 that's focused on Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, marking the adversary's expansion in targeting beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS). The findings come from SentinelOne and Permiso, which said the "campaigns share similarity with tools attributed to the notorious TeamTNT cryptojacking crew,"
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Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 21st 2023 at 11:38
A security shortcoming in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) Open Authorization (OAuth) process could have been exploited to achieve full account takeover, researchers said. California-based identity and access management service Descope, which discovered and reported the issue in April 2023, dubbed it nOAuth. "nOAuth is an authentication implementation flaw that can affect Microsoft Azure AD
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Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Microsoft Azure Bastion and Container Registry

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 14th 2023 at 13:41
Two "dangerous" security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Microsoft Azure Bastion and Azure Container Registry that could have been exploited to carry out cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. "The vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized access to the victim's session within the compromised Azure service iframe, which can lead to severe consequences, including unauthorized data access,
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Newly Discovered "By-Design" Flaw in Microsoft Azure Could Expose Storage Accounts to Hackers

By Ravie Lakshmanan — April 11th 2023 at 13:00
A "by-design flaw" uncovered in Microsoft Azure could be exploited by attackers to gain access to storage accounts, move laterally in the environment, and even execute remote code. "It is possible to abuse and leverage Microsoft Storage Accounts by manipulating Azure Functions to steal access-tokens of higher privilege identities, move laterally, potentially access critical business assets, and
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Microsoft Fixes New Azure AD Vulnerability Impacting Bing Search and Major Apps

By Ravie Lakshmanan — April 1st 2023 at 08:33
Microsoft has patched a misconfiguration issue impacting the Azure Active Directory (AAD) identity and access management service that exposed several "high-impact" applications to unauthorized access. "One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but also launch high-impact XSS attacks on Bing users," cloud security
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Researchers Detail Severe "Super FabriXss" Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure SFX

By Ravie Lakshmanan — March 30th 2023 at 17:02
Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2023-23383 (CVSS score: 8.2), the issue has been dubbed "Super FabriXss" by Orca Security, a nod to the FabriXss flaw (CVE-2022-35829, CVSS score: 6.2) that was fixed by Microsoft in October 2022. "The Super FabriXss vulnerability
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New Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Uncovered — EmojiDeploy for RCE Attacks

By Ravie Lakshmanan — January 19th 2023 at 14:20
A new critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw discovered impacting multiple services related to Microsoft Azure could be exploited by a malicious actor to completely take control of a targeted application. "The vulnerability is achieved through CSRF (cross-site request forgery) on the ubiquitous SCM service Kudu," Ermetic researcher Liv Matan said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "By
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Microsoft Azure Services Flaws Could've Exposed Cloud Resources to Unauthorized Access

By Ravie Lakshmanan — January 17th 2023 at 14:12
Four different Microsoft Azure services have been found vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security issues, which were discovered by Orca between October 8, 2022 and December 2, 2022 in Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Digital Twins, have since been addressed
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Researchers Disclose Details of Critical 'CosMiss' RCE Flaw Affecting Azure Cosmos DB

By Ravie Lakshmanan — November 1st 2022 at 15:54
Microsoft on Tuesday said it addressed an authentication bypass vulnerability in Jupyter Notebooks for Azure Cosmos DB that enabled full read and write access. The tech giant said the problem was introduced on August 12, 2022, and rectified worldwide on October 6, 2022, two days after responsible disclosure from Orca Security, which dubbed the flaw CosMiss. "In short, if an attacker had
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Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 21st 2022 at 10:12
Microsoft this week confirmed that it inadvertently exposed information related to thousands of customers following a security lapse that left an endpoint publicly accessible over the internet sans any authentication. "This misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between Microsoft and prospective
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Researchers Detail Azure SFX Flaw That Could've Allowed Attackers to Gain Admin Access

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 19th 2022 at 13:18
Cybersecurity researchers have shared more details about a now-patched security flaw in Azure Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) that could potentially enable an attacker to gain administrator privileges on the cluster. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35829, carries a CVSS severity rating of 6.2 and was addressed by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday updates last week. <!--adsense--> Orca
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Cloud-based Cryptocurrency Miners Targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 11th 2022 at 17:13
GitHub Actions and Azure virtual machines (VMs) are being leveraged for cloud-based cryptocurrency mining, indicating sustained attempts on the part of malicious actors to target cloud resources for illicit purposes. "Attackers can abuse the runners or servers provided by GitHub to run an organization's pipelines and automation by maliciously downloading and installing their own cryptocurrency
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New 'FabricScape' Bug in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Impacts Linux Workloads

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 29th 2022 at 08:26
Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 disclosed details of a new security flaw affecting Microsoft's Service Fabric that could be exploited to obtain elevated permissions and seize control of all nodes in a cluster. The issue, which has been dubbed FabricScape (CVE-2022-30137), could only be weaponized on containers that are configured to have runtime access. It has been 
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Technical Details Released for 'SynLapse' RCE Vulnerability Reported in Microsoft Azure

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 14th 2022 at 13:19
Microsoft has incorporated additional improvements to address the recently disclosed SynLapse security vulnerability in order to meet comprehensive tenant isolation requirements in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines. The latest safeguards include moving the shared integration runtimes to sandboxed ephemeral instances and using scoped tokens to prevent adversaries from using a client
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