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How Microsoft Entra ID supports US government agencies in meeting identity security requirements

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Credit to Author: Joy Chik| Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:00:00 +0000

United States Government agencies are adopting Microsoft Entra ID to consolidate siloed identity solutions, reduce operational complexity, and improve control and visibility across all users.

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Chained for attack: OpenVPN vulnerabilities discovered leading to RCE and LPE

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:00:00 +0000

Microsoft researchers found multiple vulnerabilities in OpenVPN that could lead to an attack chain allowing remote code execution and local privilege escalation. This attack chain could enable attackers to gain full control over targeted endpoints, potentially resulting in data breaches, system compromise, and unauthorized access to sensitive information.

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How Microsoft and NIST are collaborating to advance the Zero Trust Implementation

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Credit to Author: Mark Simos| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Both Microsoft and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Cyber security Center of Excellence (NCCoE) have translated the Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and Security Model into practical and actionable deployment. In this blog post, we explore details of their collaboration on a Zero Trust (ZT) implementation and what this learning pathway means for your organization.​​

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Ransomware operators exploit ESXi hypervisor vulnerability for mass encryption

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Security researchers have observed a vulnerability used by various ransomware operators to get full administrative access to domain-joined ESXi hypervisors and encrypt the virtual machines running on them. The vulnerability involves creating a group called “ESX Admins” in Active Directory and adding an attacker-controlled user account to this group. This manipulation of the Active Directory group takes advantage of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-37085) in ESXi hypervisors that grants the added user full administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor. The vulnerability was fixed by VMware in their June release and ESXi administrators should install this security update.

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Onyx Sleet uses array of malware to gather intelligence for North Korea

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:57:18 +0000

On July 25, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted an individual linked to the North Korean threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Onyx Sleet. Microsoft Threat Intelligence collaborated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in tracking activity associated with Onyx Sleet. We will continue to closely monitor Onyx Sleet’s activity to assess changes following the indictment.

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Zero Trust in the Age of AI: Join our online event to learn how to strengthen your security posture

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Security Team| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Register for the “Zero Trust in the Age of AI” webcast to learn more about how our new capabilities in identity and network access and security operations make it easier to implement Zero Trust across your entire environment.

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