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fromThe Hacker News
2 weeks ago

Microsoft Warns of 'Payroll Pirates' Hijacking HR SaaS Accounts to Steal Employee Salaries

Storm-2657 hijacks employee HR SaaS accounts via phishing and AitM attacks, then redirects salary payments to attacker-controlled bank accounts by modifying payment settings.
fromIT Pro
2 weeks ago

'Payroll Pirates' target US universities, Microsoft warns

"However, it's important to note that any SaaS systems storing HR or payment and bank account information could be easily targeted with the same technique," Microsoft researchers said. "These attacks don't represent any vulnerability in the Workday platform or products, but rather financially motivated threat actors using sophisticated social engineering tactics and taking advantage of the complete lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) or lack of phishing-resistant MFA to compromise accounts."
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fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

When Employees Help Hackers: How Threat Actors Bypass MFA

Criminals increasingly bypass MFA by tricking employees with sophisticated phishing, driving business email compromise and largely irretrievable wire fraud losses.
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fromTheregister
1 month ago

Ransomware crims broke in, found recovery codes in plaintext

Unencrypted recovery codes on a desktop enabled attackers to bypass MFA, compromise detection tools, steal credentials, and deploy ransomware across the network.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Google, Microsoft account takeover made easy via VoidProxy

The phishes target any Google and Microsoft accounts, from small businesses to large enterprises, we're told. And while Okta didn't have a confirmed victim count, "we have observed high-confidence account takeovers in multiple entities," the threat intel team told us. "By extension, we expect Microsoft and Google will have observed a larger number of ATO events, given that VoidProxy proxies non-federated users directly with Microsoft and Google servers."
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