Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud productivity suite, whose identity, email, and data controls make its vulnerabilities and security advisories consequential.
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Office 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-hosted productivity and collaboration service, encompassing Exchange Online email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and web and desktop Office applications. Because these services store communications and business documents in a shared cloud environment, the tag includes both attacks against the platform and security issues arising from tenant configuration, identity, and connected applications.
Material risks include phishing or stolen credentials leading to account takeover, malicious OAuth applications gaining delegated access, mailbox forwarding rules, and excessive external sharing of files. Effective defenses include phishing-resistant multifactor authentication, conditional-access policies, least-privilege administration, controlled app consent, data-loss prevention, and review of audit and sign-in logs. Security teams must also track Microsoft advisories and client vulnerabilities, preserve cloud evidence for investigations, and apply retention, privacy, and compliance controls appropriate to the data stored in the tenant.
A reported a "potentially dangerous piece of functionality" allows an attacker to launch an attack on cloud infrastructure and ransom files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive.
An ongoing outage is affecting multiple Microsoft 365 services, with customers worldwide reporting delays, sign-in failures, and issues accessing their accounts. [...]
A new phishing campaign has been targeting U.S. organizations in the military, security software, manufacturing supply chain, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors to steal Microsoft Office 365 and Outlook credentials. [...]