In a blog post dated March 22, 2022, published hours after Lapsus$ (one of themost prolific hacking groups in the world) posted a file containing partial sourcecode for Bing, Bing Maps, and Cortana, Microsoft revealed that an employee's account was compromised by the hacker group, giving attackers access toMicrosoft systems and allowing source code theft.
Microsoft admitted a five-day window of time between January 16 and 21, 2022,when an attacker had access to a support engineer’s laptop.
Do you know how many behavioral anomalies anexternal attacker can unleash disguised as anemployee from his laptop just in a few hours?
Many.
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