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Threat Intelligence

Half of All Real Attacks Now Target Logins, Says Prophet Security Review

A quarter of investigating every alert across customer environments shows identity abuse, help-desk trickery and old-school phishing still doing most of the damage.

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Identity & Access

Phishing kit 'BigBear' walked past Microsoft 365 logins at 258 companies

Researchers at CloudSEK found the rented service scooped up more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials and 4,148 session cookies from victims in 40 countries.

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Identity & Access

When an Employee's Password Shows Up in a Stealer Log, the Session Cookie Is the Real Problem

Infostealer malware grabs more than passwords. It grabs live logins, and that's what lets attackers walk past multi-factor prompts.

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Identity & Access

NovaCookies Phishing Kit Rents Microsoft 365 Session Theft for $320 a Month

A new subscription phishing service abuses genuine Docusign emails to slip past multi-factor authentication and steal live Microsoft 365 logins.

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Identity & Access

Mirage2FA Phishing Kit Slipped Past Microsoft 365 Logins at 4,500 Firms

A rented phishing service quietly harvested Microsoft 365 credentials and two-factor codes across US and European companies for nearly two years.

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Identity & Access

Fake Job Interviews Are Stealing Google and Facebook Logins

A phishing operation called RecruitTrap uses realistic pop-up windows to grab passwords and one-time codes from job seekers.

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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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Identity & Access

Changing Your Password No Longer Kicks Hackers Out

A growing wave of attacks steals not passwords but the digital passes that keep you logged in, meaning a password reset leaves the intruder sitting comfortably inside your account.

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Threat Intelligence

Insurance phishing gets faster: attackers now hijack accounts in real time

Researchers say fake insurance login pages are being run live, with criminals stepping in the moment a victim types their password.

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Identity & Access

Police shut down Kratos, the phishing kit built to hijack Microsoft 365 logins

German and US investigators dismantled the kit's servers, and Indonesian police arrested its alleged creator, ending a service that helped criminals slip past two-factor login checks.

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Threat Intelligence

A Phishing Crew Forgot to Lock Its Own Front Door

A single sloppy command in a shell history file handed French researchers the full toolkit behind three live Microsoft 365 phishing operations.

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Identity & Access

Two Scattered Spider Members Plead Guilty as London Trial Opens

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers admitted roles in the TfL intrusion and a SIM-swap and SMS-phishing operation that turned harvested SSO credentials into nine-figure ransom payouts.

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Identity & Access

Device Code Phishing Is Eating MFA. Behavioral Detection Is the Backstop.

Token theft and consent-grant abuse sidestep the second factor entirely. Defenders are leaning on anomaly detection because the login looks legitimate.

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Illustration: a phishing attack targeting Microsoft 365 users, showing a hacker bypassing security measures
Identity & Access

Kali365 Phishing Kit Hijacks Microsoft OAuth Tokens to Silently Bypass MFA

The FBI has flagged a device-code phishing campaign powered by Kali365, a toolkit that steals OAuth tokens tied to Microsoft 365 accounts without ever touching a user's password.

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Identity & Access

FBI flags Kali365, the latest phishing kit pitched at draining Microsoft 365 tenants

The bureau says the subscription-priced service abuses OAuth device-code flows to lift session tokens and walk straight past MFA.

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