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Hackers are going after highly-positioned professionals, including senior executives, with targeted phishing and cloud account takeover attacks, new research has claimed.

A report from Proofpoint outlined a new campaign to compromise Microsoft Azure environments and cloud accounts since late November 2023.

A campaign to hack into Azure Cloud accounts is targeting senior executives at a wide range of organizations, affecting hundreds of user accounts so far, according to California-based cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.

“In late November 2023, Proofpoint researchers detected a new malicious campaign, integrating credential phishing and cloud account takeover (ATO) techniques,” Proofpoint said in an advisory post. The firm notes that the attack is still ongoing.

The advisory post explains the technical details of the hacks, but in short, threat actors use shared documents that are individualized to the target as phishing lures. The document links, however, redirect users to a malicious phishing web page, where account details are stolen.

Once stolen, attackers register their multi-factor…

Generative AI capabilities are a central theme for Microsoft announcements in 2023. Microsoft partner general manager Hadas Bitran explored some of the ways that the company is applying generative AI capabilities to the healthcare industry. New AI capabilities are transforming the way that healthcare organizations interpret X-ray and MRI results, offering a boost to precision medicine initiatives.

To better meet these needs, Bitran announced that new capabilities are coming to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Azure AI Language Service will include generally available multi-language support in Text Analytics. A de-identification service is in preview for Fabric and Health Data Services to remove identifiers from health data. Increasingly, healthcare organizations will be…

FOI 22/542

12th April 2022

Dear

Thank you for your email. Please see the response to your Freedom of Information Request below:

Further to the original Hosting request, the contract below has expired. Please provide the current status.

Azure – Cloud contract

I wish to submit a request to the organisation around their hosting contract(s) with 3rd party providers.

The type of contract I wish to see is below:

1. Dedicated hosting- Managed environment

2. Co-Location- hosting allows a business to still own their own server equipment; however, instead of storing it in their own data centre, they instead are able to store it in rented space in a colocation hosting centre.

3. Cloud Hosting- Cloud hosting services provide hosting for websites on virtual servers,…