Organizations have quickly adopted the full-featured set of productivity and collaboration tools offered by Office 365 (O365), which was moved under the Microsoft 365 umbrella this spring. They're leveraging Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and other file storage systems to store and collaborate on sensitive documents and data. However, with the exponential increase of usage in the last few months, the platform has become an enticing and fruitful target for attackers of all types.
In 2019, 85% of all incident response investigations conducted by the Kudelski Security Incident Response team started with a compromised Office 365 account. While reviewing the results of those investigations, one thing quickly became apparent: Attackers know the productivity suite better than most IT administrators and defenders.
How Attackers Are AttackingThis year, we saw attackers leverage a multitude of attack techniques, most of which could have been easily prevented by turning on features included with most Office 365 Enterprise plans. As organizations strategize for 2021, it is paramount to know and understand how malicious actors are capitalizing on their knowledge of these environments to compromise, persist in, and exfiltrate data.
Here are the three most common ways attackers are leveraging Microsoft's platform:
1. Brute Force and Password StuffingCredential stuffing is still one of the leading causes of account compromise. Attackers take advantage of the fact that most organizations don't enable multifactor authentication (MFA), a free feature offered to all Microsoft 365 tenants, which, according to Microsoft, could have prevented 99.9% of account compromises it saw across users' environments.
The vast majority of "password stuffing" attacks aren't tar ..
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