July 30, 2026

Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find a master key to every database in Azure Cosmos DB

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Wiz researchers found a single credential that could unlock every database running on Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB. They named it the Cosmos Master Key. And the vulnerability hunter that helped find it was not entirely human. Microsoft has patched the...