A financially motivated cybergang tracked by Mandiant as 'UNC3944' is using phishing and SIM swapping attacks to hijack Microsoft Azure admin accounts and gain access to virtual machines. From there, ...

Using the access to virtual machines the attackers employed malicious use of the Serial Console on Azure Virtual Machines to install third-party remote management software within client environments.

To begin the process, it’s necessary to have an Azure account with an active subscription and an existing Azure Virtual Machine. By default, Azure assigns a dynamic private IP address to VMs, allowing ...

Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of a new Serial Console command-line tool for recovering Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) running on Azure infrastructure. The Serial Console tool is ...