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Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified threat actor activity with overlapping tradecraft commonly associated with ShinyHunters, including voice phishing (vishing), supply-chain compromise, and misconfigured guest access targeting SaaS-based applications. The post Defending SaaS-based applications against ShinyHunters OAuth abuse appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Threat actors are targeting technology, manufacturing, and financial organizations in campaigns that combine device code phishing and voice phishing (vishing) to abuse the OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization flow and compromise Microsoft Entra accounts. [...]

Business email compromise, illicit cryptomining, phishing ... if it makes a dollar, this lot do it Multiple miscreants are misusing OAuth to automate financially motivated cyber crimes – such as business email compromise (BEC), phishing, large-scale spamming campaigns – and deploying virtual machines to illicitly mine for cryptocurrencies, according to Microsoft.…