Cybersecurity experts at Microsoft have warned against an increase in password spray attacks against cloud administrator accounts as well as high-profile identities such as C-level executives.
Password spraying is a type of brute force attack where the attackers use commonly used or previously compromised passwords repeatedly, but avoid triggering account lookouts by attacking different accounts.
“Over the past year, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART), along with Microsoft’s threat intelligence teams, have observed an uptick in the use of password sprays as an attack vector,” shared DART.
