JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources
28-09-2026 22:30 via theregister.com

JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources

The cyber criminal behind JadePuffer, the first known agentic ransomware infection reported over the summer, has also used stolen Azure identities to conduct destructive attacks on cloud storage and other resources, according to Microsoft. In July, Sysdig threat hunters uncovered JadePuffer, the first-ever documented agentic ransomware infection in which an LLM drove the entire extortion operation, from gaining initial access to compromising a production database server and destroying data. Now
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