{"id":4155,"date":"2025-04-27T06:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/storm-1977-hits-education-clouds-with-azurechecker-deploys-200-crypto-mining-containers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:11:25","slug":"storm-1977-hits-education-clouds-with-azurechecker-deploys-200-crypto-mining-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/storm-1977-hits-education-clouds-with-azurechecker-deploys-200-crypto-mining-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors,&#8221; the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in an analysis.<br \/>\nThe tech giant noted that\u00a0Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors,&#8221; the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in an analysis.<br \/>\nThe tech giant noted that\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. &#8220;The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors,&#8221; the Microsoft Threat Intelligence&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/storm-1977-hits-education-clouds-with-azurechecker-deploys-200-crypto-mining-containers\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}