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Compromised Microsoft Key: More Impactful Than We Thought

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Our investigation of the security incident disclosed by Microsoft and CISA and attributed to Chinese threat actor Storm-0558, found that this incident seems to have a broader scope than originally assumed. Organizations using Microsoft and Azure services should take steps to assess potential impact.

Compromised Microsoft Key: More Impactful Than We Thought | Wiz Blog

According to Microsoft, the compromised key was inactive and therefore any access token signed by this key must be considered suspicious.

Unfortunately, there is a lack of standardized practices when it comes to application-specific logging. Therefore, in most cases, application owners do not have detailed logs containing the raw access token or its signing key. As a result, identifying and investigating such events can prove exceedingly challenging for app owners.

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