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Octo Tempest crosses boundaries to facilitate extortion, encryption, and destruction

October 30, 2023 admin adversary-in-the-middle (aitm), credential theft, elevation of privilege, extortion, human-operated ransomware, Ransomware as a Service, tempest

Credit to Author: Microsoft Incident Response and Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:30:00 +0000

Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for many organizations across multiple industries.

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