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Microsoft Office 365 is becoming the core of many businesses. And hackers have notice
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Quote:As the use of Microsoft's Office 365 grows – encompassing services including Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and more –the sheer amount of data stored in the cloud is proving to be a tempting target for some of the most sophisticated hacking operations in the world, according to cybersecurity researchers at FireEye Mandiant.

"The amount of data in Office 365 is just huge and attackers are obviously interested in data. But also they can now access that data from pretty much anywhere in the world," Doug Bientock, principal consultant at Mandiant told ZDNet, ahead of the research being presented at the Black Hat USA security virtual conference.

It often doesn't take much for hackers to compromise the networks of organisations they're targeting; it's possible to acquire lists of email addresses of employees at a company, and attackers will attempt to use brute-force attacks to crack any common or weak passwords. It doesn't even have to involve a spear-phishing attack. Some attacks, however, are significantly more sophisticated.



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