A Cloud Breach in Under Three Hours A cloud breach can fit inside a single work meeting. Microsoft has disclosed a large operation by the actor Storm-0940. Its members used the ARTEX AI platform to attack hundreds of organizations worldwide. In several confirmed cases, less than three hours passed between picking a target and gaining privileged cloud access. What ARTEX Is…

At a glance Actor Suspected Storm-0940, which Microsoft describes as Chinese state-aligned Activity AI agent-driven reconnaissance, password spraying, and authentication bypass attempts Targets IT and software vendors, their identity providers, and their customer data Scale Multiple vendors; hundreds of user accounts sprayed, per Wiz Status No law-enforcement action reported Source Wiz Research, with reference to Microsoft and Zscaler findings TL;DR…