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Microsoft says it spotted an unusual hacking campaign in which hackers attempted to move laterally through the Azure cloud after compromising a virtual SQL server.
It marks the first time that cyber defenders for the computing giant have seen a lateral movement attempt in the Azure cloud with SQL Server as the starting point, the company says in a Tuesday blog post. Hackers have previously done so with VMs and Kubernetes clusters, but “but not in SQL Server.”
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