#150 - Intel Chat: Azure MFA, 2.9b records leaked, CVE 9.8 & ransomware record

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some cutting-edge intel coming out of LimaCharlie's community Slack channel.Starting in October, all Microsoft Azure customers will be required to have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled on their accounts.Documents from a lawsuit revealed that over 2.9 billion records are vulnerable after a massive hack of the Florida-based National Public Data network.Microsoft recently advised of a critical TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability dubbed CVE 2024-38063, which is a critical unauthenticated Remote Code Execution - or RCE - vulnerability within the Windows TCP/IP stack. Ransomware victims have paid $459,800,000 to cybercriminals in the first half of 2024, setting the stage for a new record this year if ransom payments continue at this level.