Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2023
A flaw in Microsoft Azure could be exploited by attackers to gain access to storage accounts, perform lateral movements, and even execute remote code. Researchers from the security firm Orca demonstrated how to abuse Microsoft Azure Shared Key authorization to gain full access to storage accounts and potentially critical business assets. The issue can also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2023
Researchers found a new critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw impacting multiple services related to Microsoft Azure. Researchers from Ermetic found a remote code execution flaw, dubbed EmojiDeploy, that impacts Microsoft Azure services and other cloud services including Function Apps, App Service and Logic Apps. The issue is achieved through CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) on the ubiquitous […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2022
Researchers discovered flaws in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could result in unauthorized cross-account database access in a region. Microsoft addressed a couple of vulnerabilities impacting the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could result in unauthorized cross-account database access in a region. The vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers at cloud […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2021
A security expert devised a method to retrieve a user’s Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext from Microsoft’s new Windows 365 Cloud PC service using Mimikatz. Benjamin Delpy, the popular security researcher and author of the Mimikatz tool, has devised a method to retrieve a user’s Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext from Microsoft’s new Windows 365 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2020
Microsoft removed 18 Azure Active Directory applications from its Azure portal that were created by a Chinese-linked APT group Gadolinium. Microsoft announced this week to have removed 18 Azure Active Directory applications from its Azure portal that were created by a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT group Gadolinium (aka APT40, or Leviathan). The 18 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2019
Microsoft Azure cloud services are being abused by threat actors to host malware and as command and control (C&C) servers. Threat actors look with great interest at cloud services that could be abused for several malicious purposes, like storing malware or implementing command and control servers. Now it seems to be the Microsoft Azure’s turn, […]
