300% increase in attacks on Microsoft cloud services
Microsoft has revealed that the frequency of attacks against users of its cloud services, including Microsoft Azure and Office 365, has increased by 300% over the last year.
“A large majority of these compromises are the result of weak, guessable passwords and poor password management, followed by targeted phishing attacks and breaches of third-party services,” said Microsoft in its ‘Security and Intelligence’ report.
According to the post, over two-thirds of Azure attacks came from IP addresses in China and the US, with 32.5% from the US, and 35.1% from China. The remainder came from 116 countries and regions, with Korea the lowest at just 3.1% of attacks.