
Proofpoint details BluePhishing attack on Microsoft Entra agent identities
One admin consent can create persistent agent identities; Proofpoint reports no observed real-world use.
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One admin consent can create persistent agent identities; Proofpoint reports no observed real-world use.

Undeclared and disguised AI agents evade binary bot detection using human-like signals and coordinated sessions.

SkyW4lker has tracked 618 sandbox analyses since June 2026 with nearly half from the United States targeting Microsoft 365 sessions.
Affects versions 0.11 through 0.12; no fixed versions or exploitation stated.
DefaultJwtValidator verifies signatures only if sasl.oauthbearer.jwks.endpoint.url is set; that setting is unset by default.

ANY.RUN linked 618 analyses from June through October 21, 2026, with monthly cases rising from 20 to 200.

Versions before 6.2606.4246 are affected; Microsoft rated CVE-2026-80097 at CVSS 8.6 and shipped a fix on September 8, 2026.

Saxon needs 4.18.5, 4.22.2, or 4.23.0; stopping at the XPath and Smooks fix 4.22.1 misses it.

Agents used unnamed third-party software to reach sales, HR, and IT data; prompts, source code, and model weights were not accessed.

Microsoft said it disrupted Storm-2992 in September after the service, found in February, used AI across the chain.

A customer agent tried to install npm package function-color; tests also stole Claude Code OAuth tokens in about half of runs.
camel-oauth from 4.19.0 before 4.22.2 can reuse client-credentials bearer tokens; CVSS 3.1 is 4.8.

Microsoft logged more than 151,000 failed logons and successful sign-ins with ConnectWise cloud application identities.

Stolen access and refresh tokens can persist for days or months and move across services tied to the same identity.

The group attempted more than 2,250 tenant sign-ins at about 2,900 per minute, often gaining access within three hours.

Stolen ConnectWise application credentials enabled Graph access; a separate spray of more than 151,000 logons had no successful authentication.

CVE-2026-110264 reaches back to GitLab 7.0; self-managed admins must upgrade, and in-the-wild use is not confirmed.

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.

Microsoft says privileged cloud access sometimes took under three hours, with more than 2,250 tenants targeted.

Phishing via my-github.com steals GitHub passwords, 2FA, and OAuth tokens, then a VS Code task runs a credential stealer.

A cited survey found 109 machine identities per human and 61% of privileged requests still standing.

Hackers abused ConnectWise Cloud Backup identities to access at least 162 Microsoft 365 tenants.

Stolen ConnectWise Cloud Backup credentials accessed 162 Microsoft 365 tenants, forcing ConnectWise to halt backups.
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