#cloud-native-ransomware

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fromIT Pro
1 week ago

A notorious hacker group is ramping up cloud-based ransomware attacks

The Storm-0501 threat group is refining its tactics, according to Microsoft, shifting away from traditional endpoint-based attacks and toward cloud-based ransomware. By leveraging cloud-native capabilities, from the tech giant shows Storm-0501 exfiltrates large volumes of data, destroys data and backups within the victim environment, and demands ransom - all at speed and without relying on traditional malware deployment. This time last year, Microsoft warned that Storm-0501 had extended its on-premises ransomware operations into hybrid cloud environments.
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fromTheregister
1 week ago

Storm-0501 attacked Azure, demanded payment via Teams

Ransomware groups are shifting to cloud-native attacks that abuse hybrid identity privileges to exfiltrate and destroy data and backups without traditional malware.
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