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On one hand, I know we shouldn't blame people for falling for this stuff. People are often not educated well enough on the dangers and it's not reasonable to expect it. We should build things to be systematically secure even in the face of people falling for phishing.
On the other hand it's difficult not to be frustrated with this kind of thing... People really should know better than clicking random links and typing their password.
Azure products ask you for your identity and signin a lot. Honestly, I'm asked to log in again at least once every 24 hours. That's assuming I don't traverse some sort of service wall where I'm now in a different system after clicking a link.
I do cloud engineering for a living, and I would probably fall for at least some phishing things around Azure, specifically because azure identity management is so obtuse and constantly asking for things.
It's absolutely on the system that Microsoft designed , and the practices they encourage, and the mitagations that apparently don't exist.
bing bing bing bing!
"Sign into your Microsoft account" here...
"Link your Microsoft account to Edge/[Insert MS product here]"
"Let's get you signed in" there.
"Try our Windows Hello! A new method of accessing your Microsoft account!" over there.
"Sorry you can't use your organization account here, sign into your personal account"
This is the monster Microsoft unleashed upon itself.
Microsoft, and all the cybersecurity folks who blindly accept any recommendation from third party firms.
When we need to remote in to our work PCs we have to use our Microsoft account with MFA just to access the remote connections, then use the same credentials to access the pool, then if we want to RDP into our PC we use the same credentials.