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A Windows login screen being displayed on a corporate office computer, with device approval prompts visible and attacker control indicators in the system tray
Identity & Access

Kali365 Phishing Kit Turns Microsoft's Own Login Page Against US Firms

A criminal toolkit tricks staff into approving attacker device codes on genuine Microsoft screens, handing over long-lived access to email and cloud files.

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A GitHub repository page with API tokens and authentication keys visible in commit history, workflow automation tools listed in connected integrations
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Leaked n8n Tokens Left 321 Live Automation Servers Open to Anyone With a GitHub Search

GitGuardian found thousands of API keys for the popular workflow tool spilled into public code repositories, handing attackers a straight path to connected apps and stored secrets.

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A login screen on a computer monitor showing a Microsoft authentication interface with MFA prompts, while a shadow or overlay suggests an attacker's toolkit int
Identity & Access

Greatness Phishing Kit Adds a New Trick to Steal Logins Without Passwords

The rented phishing toolkit now abuses Microsoft's own login flow to walk around multi-factor authentication.

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A hotel lobby with Wi-Fi router and network infrastructure visible, guests at tables with laptops and phones connecting to wireless networks, login screens glow
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Russian hackers turn hotel Wi-Fi into a trap for Microsoft 365 logins

Microsoft has attributed the CaptiveCrunch campaign to Storm-2945, a sub-group of APT29, which has been poisoning hotel and conference Wi-Fi networks since at least May 2025 to steal corporate accounts using two newly identified malware families.

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Identity & Access

Malware Can Silently Hijack Chrome Passkeys, Researchers Show

Palo Alto's Unit 42 details three attack paths against Google Password Manager that let ordinary user-level malware sign in without a fingerprint, PIN, or on-screen prompt.

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Financial services office with fraud detection team monitoring banking app user behavior patterns on screens, biometric security interfaces displayed, transacti
Identity & Access

Visa Is Buying Fraud-Detection Firm BioCatch for $2.4 Billion

The payments giant wants BioCatch's technology, which watches how you move through a banking app, to help banks catch scammers before money leaves an account.

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An office workspace transformed from paper-based to digital: one desk piled with birth certificate stacks, adjacent desk showing facial recognition and age veri
Identity & Access

USA Fencing's Identity Problem: How a Sports Body Stopped Checking Kids' Ages by Hand

With more than 50,000 members ranging from age eight to eighty, USA Fencing was drowning in paper birth certificates. Here's how it automated the problem away, and why the data questions around children are still worth watching.

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A smart TV setup with a device code login screen displayed, corporate office network architecture visible in the background, breach pathways illustrated through
Identity & Access

Device Code Phishing: The Login Trick That Blew Up in 2026

A login flow built for smart TVs is now one of the fastest-growing routes into corporate accounts, and identity teams are struggling to keep up.

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A cellular base station tower mounted on a building rooftop against a Seoul skyline, with a digital overlay showing network authentication protocols and fraudul
Identity & Access

South Korea hits KT with $39 million fine after hackers ran a fake mobile tower for 11 months

A lost cellular base station gave attackers a valid certificate, letting them pose as KT's network and drain money from customer phones.

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A network access control dashboard displaying user login activities and flagged suspicious behavior patterns, with authentication logs and behavioral anomalies
Identity & Access

Okta Is Buying Security Firm Permiso to Catch Identity-Based Attacks

The deal would push Okta beyond managing who can log in and into spotting when a legitimate login is being used to do something it shouldn't.

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A hospital help desk phone with a caller's voice creating visible waves of social engineering reaching toward a computer displaying SSO login credentials
Identity & Access

ShinyHunters Are Phoning Hospital Help Desks: Health-ISAC Sounds the Alarm

A wave of voice-phishing calls is tricking healthcare staff into handing over single sign-on access, and the data theft is following fast.

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An AI agent with multiple oversized keys floating around it, each granting access to different company systems, with security researchers observing from the sid
Identity & Access

AI agents with too many keys: why permissions are the new identity problem

As companies rush to deploy AI assistants that act on their behalf, security researchers warn the real danger is not the AI itself but the sweeping access rights it inherits.

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Four different authentication bypass scenarios displayed across a split-screen interface, each showing a different vector of attack against multi-factor authent
Identity & Access

The Four Ways Criminals Beat Multi-Factor Authentication (And What You Can Do About It)

Multi-factor authentication was supposed to be the lock that hackers couldn't pick. It turns out there are at least four reliable routes through it, and most organisations are leaving at least one wide open.

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An email inbox with a fake Spotify payment failure notice prominently displayed, the user clicking through to a copycat login page, credit card input fields vis
Identity & Access

Fake Spotify Payment Emails Are Stealing Card Details From Real Subscribers

Criminals are sending convincing payment-failure notices that lead Spotify users to copycat websites designed to harvest login credentials and credit card numbers.

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A cloud architecture diagram with forgotten digital keys scattered throughout the infrastructure, an AI agent waking up and making unexpected requests at odd ho
Identity & Access

The 'Ghost Credentials' Problem: How Forgotten Digital Keys Are Leaving Cloud Systems Wide Open

A sleeping AI agent that woke up and started making requests at odd hours led a security researcher to a sprawling mess of forgotten digital keys, and a free tool to help organisations find them before attackers do.

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