Azure mandatory multifactor authentication: Phase 2 starting in October 2025

Credit to Author: Joy Shah and Neha Kulkarni| Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Azure is announcing the start of Phase 2 multi-factor authentication enforcement at the Azure Resource Manager layer, starting October 1, 2025.

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Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 has continuously evolved their campaigns to achieve sharpened focus on cloud-based tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). While the threat actor has been known for targeting hybrid cloud environments, their primary objective has shifted from deploying on-premises endpoint ransomware to using cloud-based ransomware tactics.

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