Office 365 and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) customers were the targets of tens of billions of phishing emails and brute force attacks successfully blocked in 2021 by Microsoft.
“From January 2021 through December 2021, we’ve blocked more than 25.6 billion Azure AD brute force authentication attacks and intercepted 35.7 billion phishing emails with Microsoft Defender for Office 365,” said Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President for Security, Compliance and Identity at Microsoft.
“Strong identity authentication, such as multifactor authentication (MFA) and passwordless solutions would make it a lot harder for threat actors to brute force their way into their targets’ Microsoft accounts,” Jakkal added.
“Across industries, only 22 percent of customers using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft’s Cloud Identity Solution, have implemented strong identity authentication protection as of December 2021,” Jakkal said.
Microsoft introduced Cyber Signals, a cyber threat intelligence brief informed by the latest Microsoft threat data and research.
Cyber Signals will provide trend analysis and practical guidance to strengthen the defense of its customers.
Read more about it here.