Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers

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Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers

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Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. "The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in an analysis. The tech giant noted that

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