Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery

Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokens Microsoft has warned organizations about ...

Microsoft: Hackers abuse OAuth error flows to spread malware

Hackers are abusing the legitimate OAuth redirection mechanism to bypass phishing protections in email and browsers to take ...
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Microsoft Warns OAuth Redirect Abuse Delivers Malware to Government Targets

Microsoft on Monday warned of phishing campaigns that employ phishing emails and OAuth URL redirection mechanisms to bypass conventional phishing defenses implemented in email and browsers. The ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: OAuth apps used to automate BEC and cryptomining attacks

Microsoft warns that financially-motivated threat actors are using OAuth applications to automate BEC and phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for cryptomining. OAuth (short for Open ...
Microsoft

OAuth redirection abuse enables phishing and malware delivery

OAuth redirection is being repurposed as a phishing delivery path. Trusted authentication flows are weaponized to move users ...
ZDNet

Microsoft warning: These phishing attackers used fake OAuth apps to steal email

Microsoft has warned that fraudulent Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) accounts were used in a phishing campaign that featured bogus apps that tricked victims into granting them permissions to access ...
Dark Reading

Attackers Target Microsoft Accounts to Weaponize OAuth Apps

Threat actors are abusing organizations' weak authentication practices to create and exploit OAuth applications, often for financial gain, in a string of attacks that include various vectors, ...
Dark Reading

Microsoft Previews Feature to Block Malicious OAuth Apps

Threat actors are increasingly including malicious OAuth apps in their campaigns to break into cloud-based systems and applications. To address this growing problem, Microsoft is adding automated ...