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The Microsoft Defender Security Research Team and Microsoft Threat Intelligence documented a campaign in which Storm-2949 abused Microsoft Entra ID accounts to exfiltrate data from Microsoft 365 and Azure environments. The attack shows how cloud intrusions increasingly unfold through identity systems, administrative features, and legitimate platform capabilities rather than obvious malware or traditional endpoint compromise.

On April 22, 2026, Google's Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant disclosed a campaign by a threat actor they're tracking as UNC6692. The group breached enterprise networks by impersonating IT helpdesk staff over Microsoft Teams, ultimately exfiltrating Active Directory databases and achieving full domain compromise. What's notable about UNC6692 is what they didn't do. They didn't use a zero-day. They didn't exploit a software vulnerability.

A new research report from Reach Security reveals that misconfigured security controls, configuration drift, and unused capabilities across an organization’s existing security technology stack are a primary driver of cybersecurity risk.

In 2025, organizations spent billions on security, deploying EDR/XDR, SASE, firewalls, identity platforms, email security, web security, and more. And yet, breaches persist. The reason often is not a zero-day, an advanced persistent threat, or a cutting-edge exploit. It is far more mundane. Misconfigurations across identity, endpoint, network, and email/web security controls remain among the top root causes of incidents.

Security configurations are not static. They evolve over time due to software updates, policy changes, emergency patches, and human intervention. While these changes are often necessary, they can lead to configuration drift, a gradual misalignment between an organization’s security controls and its intended security policies.

Continuous Threat Exposure Management is a continuous security framework for identifying, assessing, validating, and reducing the exposures that matter most to an organization. Rather than treating every exposure, alert, or control issue as equally urgent, CTEM helps organizations focus on the exposures that are actually reachable, relevant to likely attack paths, and meaningful in a business context.