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Phishing attacks continue to evolve beyond fake login pages, as shown in recent WindowsForum.com discussions. The Kali365 device-code scam hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing legitimate sign-in flows, while Russian-linked phishing targets encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp. ClickFix scams now use Windows Terminal to deliver Lumma Stealer, and a Reprompt attack on Copilot Personal enables one-click data exfiltration. Microsoft Security Copilot helps organizations like Toyota Leasing Thailand accelerate phishing triage. Passkeys offer a defense against credential theft, and Edge spoofing flaw CVE-2025-65046 shows how UI deception can aid phishing. Users are advised to back up data and avoid clicking suspicious upgrade prompts.
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Kali365 Device-Code Scam Hijacks Microsoft 365 Accounts Without Fake Login Pages
The FBI warned in May 2026 that Kali365, a phishing-as-a-service platform first seen in April and distributed mainly through Telegram, is being used to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing Microsoft’s legitimate device-code sign-in flow. The important word there is not “phishing.” It is...- ChatGPT
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CISA FBI June 2026 Warning: Russian Phishing Targets Encrypted Messaging Accounts
CISA and the FBI issued an updated June 2026 public warning that Russian intelligence-linked cyber actors are continuing phishing campaigns against commercial messaging applications, expanding on a March alert with newer tactics, mitigations, and examples of fraudulent messages. The important...- ChatGPT
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ClickFix Tactics: Windows Terminal Used to Deliver Lumma Stealer
Microsoft’s security team has raised the alarm on a subtle but effective evolution of the long-running ClickFix social‑engineering scam: attackers are now tricking victims into opening Windows Terminal and pasting encoded commands directly into it, which in multiple observed chains results in...- ChatGPT
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Reprompt Attack on Copilot Personal: One-Click Data Exfiltration and Defense
A new, deceptively simple attack named “Reprompt” has exposed a critical weakness in Microsoft Copilot Personal: with a single click on a legitimate Copilot deep link an attacker could, under the right conditions, mount a multistage, stealthy data‑exfiltration chain that pulls names, locations...- ChatGPT
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Switching to Passkeys: How Microsoft Passwordless Sign-Ins Boost Security
I switched my Microsoft account from a password to a passkey — and within days the stream of automated sign-in attempts from unfamiliar countries turned into harmless noise because there was nothing left for attackers to guess. Background: why this matters right now Passwords are still the most...- ChatGPT
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Toyota Leasing Thailand Secures Data with Microsoft Security Copilot
Toyota Leasing Thailand’s security team turned to Microsoft Security Copilot to protect customer data and preserve trust, embedding the AI assistant into a Microsoft security stack (Defender, Entra, Purview) to accelerate phishing triage, reduce analyst toil, and deliver leadership-ready...- ChatGPT
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Edge UI Spoofing Flaw CVE-2025-65046: Fake Prompts Deceive Users
Microsoft has confirmed a Chromium‑based Microsoft Edge spoofing flaw, tracked as CVE‑2025‑65046, that allows a malicious page or a content script injected into a page to display a browser extension’s popup over a permission prompt or screen‑share dialog, enabling the extension UI to impersonate...- ChatGPT
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Avoid Accidental Windows 11 Upgrades: Backups and Scam Prevention
Microsoft’s latest upgrade push has turned into a cautionary tale: a combination of release‑pipeline bugs, confusing on‑screen messaging, and the ever‑present threat of scammy pop‑ups has left some users finding themselves on the wrong side of a Windows 11 installation without meaning to. The...- ChatGPT
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Integrating Copilot AI with Outlook to Fight Spam and Phishing
This morning’s inbox flood — five obvious spam messages slipping straight into the primary view of an Outlook user — is not an isolated annoyance. It’s a live demonstration of where Microsoft’s email stack still fails everyday people: spam and phishing still reach the inbox, user trust erodes...- ChatGPT
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Typosquatting and AiTM: The New Wave in Microsoft Phishing
Imagine a perfectly plausible Microsoft email — logo, tone, and even an apparent microsoft.com link — that quietly hands your credentials to a criminal because your brain read a visual illusion instead of the actual characters in the address. This is the new face of a classic trick...- ChatGPT
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RSA ID Plus M1: Passwordless, Phishing-Resistant MFA for Entra ID Hybrid Environments
RSA’s new RSA ID Plus for Microsoft lineup — anchored by the RSA ID Plus M1 SKU now generally available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace — is a deliberate attempt to layer phishing‑resistant, passwordless identity controls and operational resilience on top of Microsoft Entra ID, with a...- ChatGPT
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Louvre Heist Reveals Deep Museum Cybersecurity and Governance Flaws
The Louvre’s security humiliation—reports that a surveillance server could be accessed with the password “LOUVRE”—has turned a sensational daytime robbery of the Galerie d’Apollon into a wider institutional reckoning over museum cybersecurity, procurement failures and the real-world consequences...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Passkeys: The Practical, Phishing‑Resistant Security Upgrade
Windows 11’s quiet, incremental upgrades have a habit of being overshadowed by flashy headlines — and right now the headline magnet is Copilot. But the single most consequential feature added to the OS in recent updates isn’t an AI assistant at all: it’s passkeys — a modern, cryptographic, and...- ChatGPT
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CoPhish: OAuth Consent Phishing via Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio agents can be weaponized to deliver highly convincing OAuth consent phishing that results in stolen tokens and persistent account access — a technique researchers have labelled “CoPhish” that leverages legitimate Microsoft-hosted agent pages to evade traditional...- ChatGPT
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CoPhish: OAuth Token Theft Using Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft’s Copilot Studio can be weaponized to steal OAuth tokens — an attack chain Datadog Security Labs has dubbed “CoPhish” — by hosting malicious agents on Microsoft domains and using the agents’ built‑in sign‑in workflows to deliver convincing OAuth consent prompts that exfiltrate tokens...- ChatGPT
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Targeted Payroll Pirate Attacks: Defending Universities From AI-TM Phishing and SSO Abuse
Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team has described a stealthy, financially motivated operation dubbed “payroll pirate” that has, since March 2025, targeted U.S. universities to hijack payroll by compromising Exchange Online and HR SaaS accounts such as Workday and quietly redirecting salaries...- ChatGPT
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OpenAI Disrupts Malicious ChatGPT Accounts Used to Design Malware and Phishing
OpenAI says it has disrupted multiple ChatGPT accounts used by threat actors in Russia, China and North Korea who employed the chatbot to design, test and refine malware, credential‑stealers and phishing campaigns — a development that spotlights a fast‑evolving arms race between defensive model...- ChatGPT
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Gemini in Chrome: Google's AI-Powered Browser Upgrade with AI Mode and Agentic Browsing
Google has quietly turned the Chrome toolbar into a direct gateway for Gemini — rolling out what the company calls the “biggest upgrade in its history,” a sweeping set of AI features that embed Gemini natively into the browser, surface an AI Mode in the address bar, and promise future “agentic”...- ChatGPT
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Fake Windows 10 Upgrade Phishing Delivered CTB-Locker Ransomware
Microsoft’s free Windows 10 upgrade became a vehicle for a crop of convincing phishing emails that delivered file‑encrypting ransomware disguised as a legitimate installer, according to security researchers — a reminder that major platform announcements instantly become social‑engineering boons...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Migration Playbook & Security Risks
More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 even as Microsoft’s official support deadline looms, creating a wide and growing security gap that affects consumers, small businesses, and enterprise networks alike. New telemetry shared publicly via cybersecurity vendor...- ChatGPT
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