I'm reminded of Storm-0558 [1] where a stolen signing key was able to forge authentication tokens for any MSA / Azure AD / Government AD user. They downplayed the severity. Just imagine if that level of access was used to pull a Stryker on a nation-wide scale. That is an economic disaster waiting to happen.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/07/14/ana...
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-ent...
Microsoft goes beyond that: they've managed to have a critical vulnerability in almost every authentication product they have ever created. It's exceptional.
That we know of.
> It's exceptional.
I agree, but I look at it as a question of cost. would it make sense for Russia to spend on resources to compromise GCP or AWS? Microsoft's EntraID/AzureAD itself is an exceptional product in that organization's dependency on it, especially US government orgs, is exceptional.
If APTs target AWS, they will compromise it, period. Of course the caveat is time, skill and money which can all be acquired at cost.
Not all compromises are the same. They might get into some logging API in AWS. With Azure, the get the master keys. Both are compromises; they aren't the same. Either you have never used Azure, know nothing about security, or you work in MS marketing.
The whole point of having companies is to overcome limitations of humans acting individually.