Password Spray Attacks Taking Advantage of Lax MFA

In the first quarter of 2025, Rapid7’s Managed Threat Hunting team observed a significant volume of brute-force password attempts leveraging FastHTTP, a high-performance HTTP server and client library for Go, to automate unauthorized logins via HTTP requests. This rapid volume of credential...

Microsoft Warns of Chinese Botnet Exploiting Router Flaws for Credential Theft

Microsoft has revealed that a Chinese threat actor it tracks as Storm-0940 is leveraging a botnet called Quad7 to orchestrate highly evasive password spray attacks. The tech giant has given the botnet the name CovertNetwork-1658, stating the password spray operations are used to steal credentials...

Microsoft Confirms Russian Hackers Stole Source Code, Some Customer Secrets

Microsoft on Friday revealed that the Kremlin-backed threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard aka APT29 or Cozy Bear managed to gain access to some of its source code repositories and internal systems following a hack that came to light in January 2024. "In recent weeks, we have seen evidence that...