Cybercriminals Use Azure Front Door in Phishing Attacks

From securityaffairs.co

Azure Front Door

Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft.

The identified resources in one of the malicious campaigns impersonate various services appearing to be legitimately created on the “azurefd.net” domain – This allows the bad actors to trick users and spread phishing content to intercept credentials from business applications and e-mail accounts. Notably, most phishing resources were designed to target SendGrid, Docusign and Amazon customers, along with several other major Japanese and Middle East online service providers and corporations. According to experts, such tactics confirm how the bad actors are continuously looking to enhance their tactics and procedures to avoid phishing detection using world-known cloud services. 

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