Microsoft’s CVP of Fraud on Combating Ecosystem Abuse

This episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast features Kelly Bissell and Priyanka Ramesha discussing Microsoft’s efforts to combat fraud and product abuse—including crypto mining, tech support scams, and deepfakes—and exploring why attackers target cloud environments, detailing tactics like phishing, API exploitation, OAuth abuse, credential theft, lateral movement, and data exfiltration, alongside recent Azure policy changes to detect and prevent misuse.