Microsoft Disrupts Ransomware Campaign Abusing Azure Certificates
Microsoft revoked more than 200 digital certificates that threat actors used to sign fake Teams binaries that set the stage for Rhysida ransomware attacks.
Microsoft revoked more than 200 digital certificates that threat actors used to sign fake Teams binaries that set the stage for Rhysida ransomware attacks.
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Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it revoked more than 200 certificates used by a threat actor it tracks as Vanilla Tempest to fraudulently sign malicious binaries in ransomware attacks. The certificates were “used in fake Teams setup files to deliver the Oyster backdoor and ultimately deploy Rhysida ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in…
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