Tagged: cloud security

Microsoft Averts Mass Cloud Takeover Due to Azure Flaw

Microsoft narrowly avoided a vulnerability that could have led to the mass compromise of its cloud customers: Dutch researcher Dirk-jan Mollema uncovered two interrelated flaws in the Entra ID identity management service (formerly Azure...

VMScape: A New CPU Vulnerability Threatens Cloud Security

Researchers at ETH Zurich have unveiled a novel attack dubbed VMScape, bearing strong resemblance to Spectre and posing a significant threat to virtualization infrastructures. The attack enables a malicious virtual machine to extract cryptographic...

How Storm-0501 is Pivoting to Cloud-Native Attacks

According to a report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, the group Storm-0501 has shifted its focus from traditional on-premises ransomware campaigns to tactics centered on cloud services. Whereas in the past attackers deployed encryptors onto...