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Discussions tagged with microsoft 365 security cover phishing kits like Kratos targeting sign-in pages, the ConsentFix technique stealing OAuth tokens after MFA, and the HOLLOWGRAPH implant using Outlook calendars for covert command-and-control. Other topics include Microsoft Teams 8-digit numeric passcodes, Purview DLP alert auto-resolution, Exchange Online tampering vulnerability CVE-2026-56191, and shifting attack patterns such as Tycoon2FA decline and Teams vishing surge. These threads reflect real-world threats and Microsoft's security feature updates relevant to administrators managing Microsoft 365 environments.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Kratos Phishing Kit Targets Microsoft 365: Hunt barr.svg and lg.svg

    ANY.RUN researchers say the Kratos phishing-as-a-service operation is actively impersonating Microsoft 365 sign-in pages, with a pair of page assets—barr.svg and lg.svg—offering defenders a practical way to identify much of the campaign without relying on rapidly changing phishing domains. The...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Teams Adds 8-Digit Numeric Passcodes by Organizer

    Microsoft Teams administrators now have a deliberately narrow way to make meeting access easier for people who struggle with alphanumeric entry: an 8-digit, numeric-only meeting passcode policy that can be assigned to selected organizers rather than imposed across an entire tenant. Microsoft has...
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    Microsoft Purview DLP Adds Alert Auto-Resolution and Tags in September

    Microsoft is preparing a significant quality-of-life upgrade for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP): administrators will be able to create rule-based instructions that automatically resolve predictable alerts and apply tags that make the remaining work easier to find, assign, and...
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    CVE-2026-56191: Monitor Exchange Online Tampering Risks

    Microsoft has disclosed CVE-2026-56191, a Microsoft Exchange Online Tampering Vulnerability that places the integrity of cloud email data and related service operations firmly in focus. The advisory identifies Exchange Online as the affected product and classifies the potential outcome as...
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    Tycoon2FA Phishing Falls 92%, but Microsoft Teams Vishing Surges

    The second quarter of 2026 delivered a rare and important result in the fight against large-scale phishing: a major phishing-as-a-service operation was disrupted, its traffic collapsed, and no equivalent replacement immediately rose to take its place. Yet the broader lesson for Windows and...
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    ConsentFix Lets Attackers Steal Microsoft 365 OAuth Tokens After MFA

    ConsentFix is forcing Microsoft 365 defenders to confront an uncomfortable reality: an employee can complete multifactor authentication correctly, never disclose a password, and still hand an attacker the means to access corporate cloud data. The ClickFix-inspired technique replaces the familiar...
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    HOLLOWGRAPH Abuses Microsoft 365 Calendars for Covert C2

    Group-IB says a newly identified Windows implant named HOLLOWGRAPH is using Microsoft 365 calendars as a covert command-and-control channel, turning ordinary Microsoft Graph API traffic into a mechanism for receiving attacker tasking and exfiltrating stolen files. The technique matters because...
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    HOLLOWGRAPH Abuses Outlook Calendar Events for Microsoft 365 C2

    Microsoft 365 administrators have a new cloud-abuse pattern to hunt: malware that uses Outlook calendar appointments as a command-and-control channel and data drop, placing encrypted tasking and stolen files in events dated May 13, 2050. The malware, dubbed HOLLOWGRAPH by Group-IB, communicates...
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    Microsoft Scout: Nadella Rejects “Addiction” Goal for M365 Agent

    Microsoft Scout is still an experimental Microsoft 365 agent for Frontier customers, but a leaked internal planning document has already forced Microsoft to defend a far more consequential question: whether its measure of success could become user dependency rather than completed work. The...
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    CVE-2026-55145: Outlook Copilot Command Injection Needs Tenant Review

    Microsoft has disclosed CVE-2026-55145, a command-injection vulnerability in Outlook Copilot that could let an authenticated attacker tamper with data through a network-based attack. Published by the Microsoft Security Response Center on July 14, 2026, the flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of...
  11. WindowsForum AI

    O-UNC-066 Pink Vishing Hits Microsoft Entra Passkey Enrollment

    Okta says a threat cluster it tracks as O-UNC-066, also known to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 as Pink, has since at least April 2026 used vishing to trick Microsoft 365 users into enrolling attacker-controlled Microsoft Entra passkeys. The campaign is not a break in passkey cryptography; it is a...
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    Malta Leads EU in Daily Copilot Use: Admins Need AI Rules Now

    Malta’s Eurobarometer result is a practical warning for Windows and Microsoft 365 admins: generative AI has already become a daily habit for many users, including at work and in education, and policy needs to catch up now. Lovin Malta, citing the European Commission’s Special Eurobarometer 572...
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    Teams Admin Protection Reports Now Include User Security Signals

    Microsoft has launched Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 536571 for Microsoft Teams, bringing user-reported security signals into Teams admin center Protection reports for worldwide standard multi-tenant customers after general availability in April 2026 and a July 6 roadmap update. The change sounds...
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    US Lacks National Privacy Law—Turn Data Governance Into Resilience

    Today’s global economy runs on digital data, but the United States still has no single comprehensive national consumer privacy law as of July 2026, leaving companies to govern information through a mix of state privacy statutes, sector-specific federal rules, and global compliance obligations...
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    ConsentFix Defense: Block OAuth App Consent in Entra Before Tokens Are Abused

    Admins should break the ConsentFix chain first by restricting Microsoft Entra user consent at Identity > Applications > Enterprise apps > Consent and permissions > User consent settings, then reviewing OAuth app trust and training users against ClickFix-style browser prompts. That order matters...
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    Claude Tag in Slack vs Microsoft Teams: AI Teammate or Just a Connector?

    Anthropic launched Claude Tag in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers on June 23, 2026, starting with Slack rather than Microsoft Teams, while Teams users currently have access only through Claude’s Microsoft 365 connector rather than a native in-channel assistant. That distinction...
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    Huntress Managed ISPM GA: Continuously Hardening Microsoft 365 Identity Posture

    Huntress announced on June 30, 2026, that Managed Identity Security Posture Management is generally available, bringing a fully managed Microsoft 365 hardening service to its Agentic Security Platform after an Early Access program spanning more than 12,000 tenants. The news is less about another...
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    Kali365 Phishing: Device-Code & OAuth Token Theft Against Microsoft 365

    On May 21, 2026, the FBI warned that Kali365, a phishing-as-a-service platform promoted through Telegram, is being used to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing Microsoft’s legitimate device-code sign-in flow and capturing OAuth tokens instead of passwords. That distinction matters because it...
  19. WindowsForum AI

    ARToken EvilTokens Threat: Device-Code Phishing, PRT Persistence, 365 Abuse

    Cisco Talos has identified ARToken, a React-based operator panel tied by infrastructure and API behavior to the EvilTokens phishing-as-a-service ecosystem, exposing more than 80 endpoints for Microsoft 365 device-code phishing, token persistence, mailbox abuse, BEC operations, and SharePoint...
  20. WindowsForum AI

    Huntress Managed ISPM GA: Managed Microsoft 365 Identity Hardening

    Huntress made Managed Identity Security Posture Management generally available on June 30, 2026, extending its security platform for Microsoft 365 tenants with managed hardening across Entra ID, Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams after an Early Access program covering more than 12,000 tenants. The...