Stolen login tokens used to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts at 79 organizations
Huntress counted 497 successful sign-ins and more than 200,000 failures from July 14 to September 22, 2026.
Huntress counted 497 successful sign-ins and more than 200,000 failures from July 14 to September 22, 2026.
Huntress logged 497 successful sign-ins and over 200,000 failures from July 14 to September 22, 2026.
Admins can re-enable EWS until April 2027; Microsoft says apps should move to Microsoft Graph.
Microsoft says the agents targeted more than 2,250 tenants at up to 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute.
The group used ARTEX to reach more than 2,250 tenants at 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute; compromise counts are unstated.
Huntress saw malicious sign-ins across almost 1,000 Entra tenants, with more than 300 appearing to succeed.
Huntress says a Cloud Backup client assertion reached 162 Microsoft 365 tenants on October 15–16.
Hackers abused ConnectWise Cloud Backup identities to access at least 162 Microsoft 365 tenants.
Microsoft is investigating EX1500900, which blocks some admins from the Exchange admin center.
Microsoft will block .msix and .msixbundle attachments in Outlook on the web and new Outlook starting November.
Microsoft will block .msix and .msixbundle attachments in New Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web.
Microsoft patched CVE-2026-96940, which lets authenticated attackers read other Exchange mailboxes in the same organization.
Microsoft patched CVE-2026-96940, an Exchange flaw that lets authenticated attackers read other users' mailboxes.
Microsoft issued an out-of-band Exchange update for CVE-2026-96940, a same-organization mailbox read flaw.
Microsoft reissued September 2026 Exchange updates to fix CVE-2026-96940, an authenticated mailbox-access flaw scored 8.8.
KnowBe4 tracked 29,785 phishing emails abusing Microsoft 365 Direct Send to spoof internal senders while timing sends to US Eastern business hours.
Microsoft tracks ongoing M365 cloud intrusions since May using passkey-themed helpdesk vishing, AiTM phishing, and device-code abuse.
Microsoft tracks vishing campaigns by Storm-3121 and Storm-3032 that impersonate IT staff, phish Microsoft 365 credentials, and steal cloud data.
Microsoft reports passkey-themed phishing campaigns hijacking Microsoft 365 accounts via AiTM and device-code flows, then exfiltrating cloud data.
Microsoft warns of vishing campaigns by Storm-3121 and Storm-3032 hijacking Microsoft 365 accounts via fake passkey alerts, adding attacker-controlled MFA and exfiltrating cloud data.
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