Weekly Threat Report 1st September 2017

300% increase in attacks on Microsoft cloud services

Microsoft has revealed that the frequency of attacks against users of its cloud services, including Microsoft Azure and Office 365, has increased by 300% over the last year.

“A large majority of these compromises are the result of weak, guessable passwords and poor password management, followed by targeted phishing attacks and breaches of third-party services,” said Microsoft in its ‘Security and Intelligence’…

Link: Weekly Threat Report 1st September 2017
Source: NCSC Reports