Microsoft Warns of Large-Scale Use of Phishing Kits to Send Millions of Emails Daily

From thehackernews.com

An open source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit has found a number of takers in the cybercrime world for its ability to orchestrate attacks at scale.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team is tracking the threat actor behind the development of the kit under its emerging moniker DEV-1101.

An AiTM phishing attack typically involves a threat actor attempting to steal and intercept a target’s password and session cookies by deploying a proxy server between the user and the website.

Such attacks are more effective owing to their ability to circumvent multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections.

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