Storm-1977 Strikes Again: Cracking Cloud Security with Password Sprays and Crypto Chaos
Storm-1977 is up to no good, using AzureChecker.exe to password spray the education sector. Their endgame? Hijacking accounts to mine cryptocurrency. Microsoft’s advice: Secure your cloud credentials, lock down your Kubernetes, and keep your containers squeaky clean. After all, no one wants a surprise visit from the Storm!
Hot Take:
Who knew education could be so lucrative, right? Storm-1977 seems to think so, turning school cloud accounts into cryptocurrency mining farms. Clearly, somebody skipped over the ‘don’t mine crypto in class’ chapter in cybersecurity 101!
Key Points:
- Storm-1977 is targeting the education sector with password spraying attacks.
- The attack uses AzureChecker.exe, a CLI tool popular among threat actors.
- Attackers retrieve AES-encrypted data lists to identify password spray targets.
- In a successful breach, attackers created a resource group to mine cryptocurrency.
- Organizations are urged to secure and monitor their containerized assets to prevent such attacks.
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