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PoC exploit released for Azure AD brute-force bug—here’s what to do

Enlarge (credit: Michael Dziedzic) A public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for the Microsoft Azure Active Directory credentials brute-forcing flaw discovered by Secureworks and first reported by Ars. The exploit enables anyone to perform both username enumeration and password brute-forcing on vulnerable Azure servers. Although Microsoft had initially called the Autologon mechanism a “design” […]

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New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix

Enlarge (credit: Michael Dziedzic) Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no visibility into the attacker’s actions, let alone the possibility of blocking them. A newly discovered bug in Microsoft Azure’s Active Directory […]