Social engineering and phishing

Social engineering and phishing attacks continue to be the top attack vectors, exploiting human behavior and errors to gain access to sensitive information or advance an attack. Get the latest insights on these threats and how to prevent them.

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Simplify endpoint management with Microsoft Intune
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February 4, 2022

19 min read

ACTINIUM targets Ukrainian organizations

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is sharing information on a threat group named ACTINIUM, which has been operational for almost a decade and has consistently pursued access to organizations in Ukraine or entities related to Ukrainian affairs.
February 16, 2022

12 min read

‘Ice phishing’ on the blockchain

Our recent analysis of a phishing attack connected to the blockchain reaffirms the durability of threats like social engineering, as well as the need for security fundamentals to be built into related future systems and frameworks.
July 12, 2022

13 min read

From cookie theft to BEC: Attackers use AiTM phishing sites as entry point to further financial fraud

A large-scale phishing campaign that attempted to target over 10,000 organizations since September 2021 used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to steal passwords, hijack a user’s sign-in session, and skip the authentication process, even if the user had enabled multifactor authentication (MFA).
August 15, 2022

12 min read

Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s ongoing phishing operations

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed and taken actions to disrupt campaigns launched by SEABORGIUM in campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft.
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March 13, 2023

7 min read

DEV-1101 enables high-volume AiTM campaigns with open-source phishing kit

DEV-1101 is an actor tracked by Microsoft responsible for the development, support, and advertising of several AiTM phishing kits, including an open-source kit capable of circumventing MFA through reverse-proxy functionality.
June 8, 2023

12 min read

Detecting and mitigating a multi-stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign

Microsoft Defender Experts observed a multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) and business email compromise (BEC) attack targeting banking and financial services organizations over two days.
August 2, 2023

6 min read

Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard (previously tracked as NOBELIUM).
September 12, 2023

8 min read

Malware distributor Storm-0324 facilitates ransomware access

The threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-0324 is a financially motivated group known to gain initial access using email-based initial infection vectors and then hand off access to compromised networks to other threat actors.
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October 25, 2023

17 min read

Octo Tempest crosses boundaries to facilitate extortion, encryption, and destruction

Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for many organizations across multiple industries.
November 20, 2023

9 min read

Social engineering attacks lure Indian users to install Android banking trojans

Microsoft has observed ongoing activity from mobile banking trojan campaigns targeting users in India with social media messages and malicious applications designed to impersonate legitimate organizations and steal users’ information for financial fraud scams.
December 7, 2023

28 min read

Star Blizzard increases sophistication and evasion in ongoing attacks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence continues to track and disrupt malicious activity attributed to a Russian state-sponsored actor we track as Star Blizzard, who has continuously improved their detection evasion capabilities while remaining focused on email credential theft against targets.
December 12, 2023

16 min read

Threat actors misuse OAuth applications to automate financially driven attacks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence presents cases of threat actors misusing OAuth applications as automation tools in financially motivated attacks.