If you know how to verify legitimate sources and only download applications from reputable developers, disabling Microsoft-verified apps may not expose your system to immediate threats. However, if ...

Microsoft has disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Partner Network accounts for creating malicious OAuth applications that breached organizations' cloud environments to steal email. In a ...

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint on Tuesday described attacks that lulled users into authorizing permissions for malicious cloud apps because they may have trusted Microsoft's "Verified Publisher" ...

Proofpoint discovers threat actors targeting verified status in the Microsoft environment to abuse OAuth privileges and lure users into authorizing malicious apps. Researchers from cybersecurity firm ...

Late last year, a group of threat actors managed to obtain "verified publisher" status through the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP). This allowed them to surpass levels of brand impersonation ...