The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams

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Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise’s on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org’s Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they’d also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…