Simon Maxwell-Stewart
Graduated University of Oxford in Physics
Worked 10+ years in big data environment
Worked as Lead Data Scientist in Healthcare, bringing various ML projects into production
Now working as resident graph nerd in security research team
Session
Through novel research our team uncovered a critical vulnerability in Azure's guest user model, revealing that guest users can create and own subscriptions in external tenants they've joined—even without explicit privileges. This capability, which is often overlooked by Azure administrators, allows attackers to exploit these subscriptions to expand their access, move laterally within resource tenants, and create stealthy backdoor identities in the Entra directory. Alarmingly, Microsoft has confirmed real-world attacks using this method, highlighting a significant gap in many Azure threat models. This talk will share the findings from this first of its kind research into this exploit found in the wild.