
Athena StealthRoute PhaaS uses AI to write and cloak phishing lures
Abnormal AI counted about 89,700 related messages at roughly 2,280 US and European organizations through October 9.
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Abnormal AI counted about 89,700 related messages at roughly 2,280 US and European organizations through October 9.

Resecurity says a Chinese phishing-as-a-service kit, Iron Man System, offered thousands of lures and a claimed billion messages.

Iron Man phishing-as-a-service impersonates banks and agencies; Microsoft tracks its developers as Storm-2990.

Microsoft and partners disrupted Yam Store, a phishing service behind over one billion messages since January 2026.

Microsoft dismantled YAM Store, a phishing marketplace tied to more than one billion malicious messages.

Microsoft and partners disrupted three phishing kits linked to over one billion scam messages worldwide.

Malwarebytes says BlueKit PhaaS lets criminals launch brand-phishing sites and steal sessions in about ten minutes.

Group-IB says the Milk Dragon kit relays OTPs live to steal shoppers' card payments across 66 countries.

ANY.RUN reports phishing exposure above 70% in US finance and manufacturing, driven by AiTM kits like Sneaky2FA and ClickFix social engineering.

Court-ordered seizure of 50 EvilTokens websites disables an AI-driven PhaaS tied to 12,000 compromised Microsoft inboxes and $1.7M reported losses.

CloudSEK uncovered BigBear 2.0, a PhaaS operation that captured 4,148 Microsoft 365 session cookies, hijacking authenticated sessions after MFA via AiTM proxy.

CloudSEK researchers found the BigBear 2.0 PhaaS kit, built on Evilginx2, has stolen over 5,100 Microsoft 365 credentials across 461 organizations in 40+ countries.

NovaCookies AitM phishing kit, a Sneaky 2FA variant, uses genuine Docusign lures to steal Microsoft 365 sessions at hundreds of organizations.

SOCRadar details AnonyMousKIT, a phishing-as-a-service platform using AI voice agents posing as Apple Support to steal passcodes and 2FA codes.

Unit 42 attributes a global smishing campaign with 194,000+ phishing domains impersonating tolls, banks, and couriers to the Smishing Triad.
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