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Critical Azure Entra ID Vulnerabilities Exposed Potential global Takeover

As businesses around the world have shifted‍ their digital infrastructure over the last decade from ‍self-hosted servers to the ⁤ cloud, they’ve benefitted from the standardized, built-in‍ security features of major⁢ cloud providers like Microsoft. But with so much riding⁤ on these⁤ systems, there can be potentially disastrous consequences at a massive scale if something goes wrong. Case in point: Security researcher ‍dirk-jan Mollema recently stumbled upon a pair⁤ of⁤ vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure’s identity and access management platform that could have been exploited‍ for a potentially cataclysmic takeover ⁤of all‍ Azure customer accounts.

Understanding Entra ID and the Scope of the Risk

Known as Entra ID, the system stores each Azure cloud customer’s user identities, sign-in access controls,⁣ applications, ⁤and subscription management tools. It’s the central control plane for access ⁣to critical cloud resources. Mollema, who runs the Dutch ⁣cybersecurity company ⁤Outsider Security and‍ specializes in cloud security, has extensively studied Entra ID security,‍ publishing multiple studies on its weaknesses. His‍ recent revelation, made while preparing⁢ a presentation⁣ for the Black Hat security conference in Las