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incidents/AIR-2020-0027

Microsoft Internal Azure AI Service Red Team Exercise

Attack on AI1 Research / proof of conceptAdversarial evasion

Internal Microsoft Azure services underwent a red team assessment involving traditional intrusion techniques and adversarial machine learning evasion. The exercise demonstrated potential ML-specific vulnerabilities within cloud infrastructure.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Adversarial evasion
    Inputs crafted to make a model misclassify or miss detections (perturbations, evasion of AI-based defences).
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
Microsoft, Enterprise deployment
products
Azure
incident date
Jan 2020 (approx.)
first reported
23 Oct 2020
origin
MITRE ATLAS
Derived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
red-team · adversarial-ml · azure
record
created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2020-10-23
    Microsoft Azure Service Disruption
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0010

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