Suspected Russian nation-state threat groups have duped multiple victims into granting potentially persistent access to networks via authentication requests and valid tokens.

A subgroup of Seashell Blizzard exploited public vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems, Microsoft researchers said.

The company’s monthly Patch Tuesday update comes with more than two-thirds of the patches closing high-severity flaws.

A researcher at Sophos told CyberScoop that the company observed these tactics being used against multiple individuals and at least 15 organizations.

Star Blizzard, known to be part of Russia’s FSB, moved schemes to the messaging platform last November.

The initiative had led to tangible changes, Jack Cable said upon his exit from the agency as senior technical adviser.

In its latest security update, Microsoft has addressed a total of 159 vulnerabilities, covering a broad spectrum of the tech giant’s products, including .NET, Visual Studio, Microsoft…

The defendants used stolen API keys to gain access to devices and accounts with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service, which they then used to generate “thousands” of images…

A Russian nation-state threat actor has been observed leveraging tools from other cybercriminal groups to compromise targets in Ukraine, a recent report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed.…

Adobe, too.