Times of India | FBI warns of hacking campaign stealing Microsoft 365 accounts without passwords

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The FBI issued a public warning about a new Phishing‑as‑a‑Service toolkit called Kali365 that enables hackers to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts—including Outlook, Teams and OneDrive—without ever needing a password, by exploiting Microsoft’s “device code flow” to bypass multi‑factor authentication. Victims receive a convincing phishing email that directs them to a legitimate Microsoft verification page, where they enter a short security code; because this occurs on an authentic site and passes MFA, Microsoft issues an OAuth access token that the attacker captures, granting them a persistent backdoor to the account. Distributed mainly via Telegram, Kali365 lowers the technical barrier for criminals by providing AI‑generated phishing lures, automated campaign templates, and real‑time tracking dashboards. To mitigate the threat, the FBI advises organizations to restrict or block device code flow through conditional‑access policies, audit existing usage, limit authentication transfers, and report any incidents to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

Read more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/fbi-warns-of-hacking-campaign-stealing-microsoft-365-accounts-without-passwords/articleshow/131446721.cms

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FBI warns of hacking campaign stealing Microsoft 365 accounts without passwords

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently issued a public warning about a dangerous new hacking platform that allows cybercriminals to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts, including Outlook email, Teams, and OneDrive cloud storage, without ever needing a password. The announcement posted by the agency raised alarm over a “Phishing-as-a-Service” toolkit called Kali365, explaining that the platform is specifically designed to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) – the standard security feature that text-messages or apps a code to prove a user's identity.

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⚠️ #Kali365 is weaponizing MFA bypass against businesses via Microsoft 365. Expect data theft and operational disruption.

🚨 Attackers get persistent access to your Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive. Hundreds of organizations hit already. How to detect: https://any.run/malware-trends/kali365/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=kali365_mtt&utm_term=010626&utm_content=linktomtt

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We’re seeing a growing Device Code #phishing activity, with Kali365 emerging as one of the most active PhaaS. In the last 24 hours alone, #ANYRUN recorded 100+ related analysis sessions.

⚠️ The attack abuses legitimate Microsoft device authentication flows. Victims are shown a user code and instructed to enter it into a real Microsoft device auth page, allowing attackers to capture OAuth access tokens instead of passwords. The risk shifts from credential theft to token abuse, while significantly reducing the number of traditional phishing indicators typically used for detection and triage.

❗️ Deobfuscated Kali365 JavaScript revealed that after a verification gate, the lure deploys a phishing page, launches a legitimate Microsoft device authentication flow, and then polls /api/status/<session_id> for session states such as captured, expired, and declined.

📌 The code also contains lure-template generators for OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, and Voicemail, and a separate Google device-code authentication flow.

⚡️ #ANYRUN lets analysts safely reconstruct the flow, validate suspicious OAuth activity faster, and identify related phishing infrastructure before campaigns scale further, helping SOC teams reduce investigation time, improve detection accuracy, and lower MTTR.

👨‍💻 See the full phishing flow, validate detection logic, and collect #IOCs: https://app.any.run/tasks/d078f430-c3cc-44e8-a809-5506205049c3?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=kali365_activity_surges&utm_content=linktoservice&utm_term=270526

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FBI warns of Kali365 phishing service targeting Microsoft 365 accounts

The FBI is warning about the Kali365 phishing-as-a-service platform (PhaaS) that is used to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing OAuth device code authentication to steal session tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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The whole industry has been screaming at you to enable MFA. Microsoft turned it into a mandate. So you complied. And now there's a subscription service selling access to exactly those "protected" accounts, using a legitimate Microsoft authentication flow they never bothered to retire.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-failsafe-that-isnt-microsofts-mfa-problem

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