Storm-2139 Azure OpenAI Guardrail Bypass
Attack on AI3 Confirmed exploitationJailbreak
Threat actors used stolen credentials and custom tooling to bypass safety guardrails on Azure OpenAI Services. The operation generated illicit and harmful synthetic content, prompting Microsoft intervention.
Details
- type
- Attack on AIAn AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
- categories
- JailbreakA user deliberately bypasses a model's safety or policy controls through crafted prompts.
- Jailbreak
- owasp llm top 10
- mitre atlas
- Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
- severity
- 3 · Confirmed exploitationUsed against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
- targets
- Microsoft
- products
- Azure OpenAI Services
- incident date
- Dec 2024 (approx.)
- first reported
- 30 Jun 2026
- origin
- MITRE ATLASDerived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
- classifier confidence
- 0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
- tags
- storm-2139 · jailbreak · azure-openai
- record
- created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z · json
Sources · 4
- 2026-06-30Storm-2139 Azure OpenAI Guardrail BypassMITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0057
- 2026-06-30Taking legal action to protect the public from abusive AI-generated contentMicrosoft Security · blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/01/10/taking-legal-action-to-protect-the-
- 2026-06-30Disrupting a global cybercrime network abusing generative AIMicrosoft Security · blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/02/27/disrupting-cybercrime-abusing-gen-a
- 2026-06-30How Microsoft is taking down AI hackers who create harmful images of celebrities and othersMicrosoft Security · news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/how-microsoft-is-taking-down-ai-hackers-wh
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