Storm-0501 has erased data and backups after stealing information from a victim’s Microsoft Azure environment in a new cloud based ransomware attack. Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently provided details of the tactics deployed by the actor tracked as Storm-0501 in a blog published on August 27. Sherrod DeGrippo, director of Microsoft …

It is no secret that passwords are highly susceptible to phishing and brute force attacks. This led to the mass adoption of passkeys, a passwordless authentication method leveraging cryptographic key pairs that allows users to log in with biometrics or a hardware key. According to FIDO, over 15 billion accounts …