The recent breach into Microsoft’s network and its top executives’ email by hackers, traced back to Russia-state group Midnight Blizzard, was facilitated through an outdated test account with administrative privileges. The hackers employed a technique called “password spraying” to exploit a weak credential and infiltrate the unprotected account. They compounded this access by creating a malicious app, granting it rights to every email on Microsoft’s Office 365 service.
Lazarus Hackers Exploiting IIS Servers to Deploy ASP-based Web Shells
The Lazarus group has launched sophisticated attacks on South Korean web servers, deploying ASP-based web shells as first-stage Command and Control (C2) servers. These attacks,
