Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 attacks vSphere and Azure to run VMs inside victims' infrastructure

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Who needs ransomware when you can scare techies into coughing up their credentials?

Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 – the crew suspected of involvement in the recent attacks on Snowflake and MGM Entertainment, and plenty more besides – has changed its tactics and is now targeting SaaS applications

UNC3944's crooked callers would often claim they were receiving a new phone, which necessitated a multi-factor authentication reset. VMware's vSphere hybrid cloud management tool was one target of attacks made after compromising SSO tools. Microsoft's Azure was another. Both were targeted so that UC3944 operatives could create virtual machines within an org and use them for their evil activities. Doing so makes sense because an org's own resources will mostly use IP addresses within a range designated as safe.

 

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