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Compromiseseverity: High2024-01-19

Midnight Blizzard intrusion into Microsoft corporate email

published by Microsoft Security Response Center
Actor
APT29RU · RussiaAPT

Russian state-sponsored intrusion set publicly attributed to the SVR. Long history of espionage operations against Western government, diplomatic, think tank, and technology targets, including the So…

Summary

Microsoft disclosed that Midnight Blizzard (APT29) compromised a legacy non-production test tenant via password spray, then pivoted to access a small number of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of the senior leadership team and cybersecurity / legal staff.

Tags

password-sprayoauthemail

Primary source

msrc.microsoft.com

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