multifactor authentication

Microsoft disclosed on Jan. 19 that a nation-state backed attack occurred beginning in November 2023 in which the Russian state-sponsored threat actor group Midnight Blizzard accessed some Microsoft corporate emails and documents through compromised email accounts. The attackers gained access in November 2023 using a legacy test tenant account. From there, they could use that account’s permissions to access a small number of Microsoft corporate email accounts – some of those accounts were for senior…