cloud threats

Cybersecurity researchers have recently uncovered a sophisticated attack technique that exploits misconfigured Microsoft Azure Arc deployments, enabling adversaries to escalate privileges from cloud environments to on-premises systems and maintain persistent access within enterprise...

Few security challenges expose both the evolving sophistication of cybercriminal tactics and the unintended weaknesses of enterprise cloud platforms as starkly as the recent abuse of Microsoft 365’s “Direct Send” feature. In a rapidly intensifying phishing campaign discovered in May 2025, threat...

In recent months, the cybersecurity landscape has been rocked by a rapidly escalating campaign in which cybercriminals have weaponized TeamFiltration, a penetration testing tool, to orchestrate massive attacks on Office 365 accounts. According to incident data and credible analyses from leading...

The discovery of a major Domain Name System (DNS) resolution flaw in Microsoft Azure’s OpenAI service, as documented by Unit 42 researchers in late 2024, cast light on a pivotal but often overlooked aspect of cloud security: the profound risk introduced by misconfigurations—even in managed...

A recent surge in cyber campaigns is drawing heightened attention to the security of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, with Commvault—one of the leading enterprise data protection providers—at the center of a nation-state level breach. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

In a newly issued advisory, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has put multinational enterprises and IT professionals on high alert following a series of attacks specifically targeting Commvault’s Microsoft Azure-hosted environment. This warning, published just as...

A new development in the realm of cloud security threats has emerged, offering threat actors a novel way to obtain Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) refresh tokens from compromised endpoints, potentially bypassing even robust multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms. This...

The disclosure of several critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem, including one rated as a perfect 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), marks a pivotal moment in both the enterprise security landscape and public trust in hyperscale providers. Microsoft’s...

A critical security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-21416 has been disclosed in Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft’s cloud-based remote desktop solution, drawing the attention of enterprises and security professionals worldwide. This vulnerability centers on an elevation of privilege risk...

A newly surfaced cybersecurity threat has put over 130,000 devices under the control of a sophisticated botnet, leveraging these compromised endpoints to mount large-scale password spraying attacks against Microsoft 365 accounts. This troubling development, uncovered by SecurityScorecard’s...

An Unseen Intrusion: How Atlas Lion Blended In and Struck at Big-Box Retailers In today’s digital battleground, even the most robust corporate networks are vulnerable to unexpected breaches that exploit the very rules designed to protect them. Recent findings by cybersecurity firm Expel and...