Tag: Delete Azure Data

Storm-0501, a financially driven threat actor, has been seen honing its strategies to launch extortion and data exfiltration assaults against cloud environments. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team stated in a report shared with The Hacker News that cloud-based ransomware introduces a fundamental shift from traditional on-premises ransomware, where the threat actor usually uses malware to encrypt important files across endpoints within the compromised network and then bargains for a decryption key. Without using conventional malware distribution, Storm-0501 quickly exfiltrates vast amounts of data, destroys data and backups within the victim environment, and demands ransom by utilizing cloud-native capabilities. Microsoft first reported on Storm-0501 nearly a year ago. It desc...