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Mirage2FA Surge Hits 4,500 US and EU Companies, Abusing Microsoft 365 Login Flows

ID
17594
Status
summarized
Published
25 Aug 2026, 7:56 PM
Fetched
25 Aug 2026, 8:36 PM
Provider
The Hacker News
Category
security
Original URL
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/mirage2fa-surge-hits-4500-us-and-eu.html
Source URL
https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews

Summary

Score
7.5
Created
25 Aug 2026, 8:38 PM
Tags
Audience
developerssaas_foundersai_agent_users

What happened

Mirage2FA, a commercial phishing-as-a-service toolkit, has targeted 4,532 organizations globally since 2024 by bypassing Microsoft 365 2FA via session cookie and password theft. ANY.RUN reports that 48% of targeted emails were potentially compromised, with victims concentrated in the US but also spanning Singapore, India, and the UK, heavily impacting the technology and manufacturing sectors.

Why it matters

If your company relies on Microsoft 365 and SSO, standard 2FA is insufficient against this AiTM attack; you must implement conditional access policies that revoke or restrict session tokens based on anomalies to prevent attackers from pivoting into connected SaaS apps.

Discussion angle

Practical steps for configuring Microsoft 365 tenant policies to detect and invalidate stolen session cookies, rather than relying solely on MFA enforcement.

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