Microsoft removed 18 Azure AD apps used by Chinese state-sponsored hacker group
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ZDNet
Microsoft said today that it removed 18 Azure Active Directory applications from its Azure portal that were created and abused by a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group.
The 18 Azure AD apps were taken down from the Azure portal earlier this year in April, the Microsoft threat intelligence team said in a report published today.
The report described the recent tactics used by a Chinese hacker group known as Gadolinium (aka APT40, or Leviathan). The Azure apps were part of the group's 2020 attack routine, which Microsoft described as "particularly challenging" to detect due to its multi-stage infection process and the broad use of PowerShell payloads.
