ThreatPaper

#midnight-blizzard

2 cases

Anthropic's September threat report describes a Midnight Blizzard-linked operator running eight AI workflows — phishing, hotel Wi-Fi hijack, malware evasion — against 24 targets in Ukraine and Europe. Microsoft's CaptiveCrunch report, from the other side, lists four of the same domains.

State-SponsoredAI & Machine Learning

Russian state-sponsored group Midnight Blizzard (APT29) breached Microsoft's corporate environment via password spray against a legacy non-production test tenant, accessed executive and security team email, and exfiltrated OAuth tokens and source code — demonstrating sophisticated identity-based tradecraft without malware.

State-SponsoredData Breach