Following its emergence in February 2026, EvilTokens quickly became one of the most widely used phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms, providing cybercriminals with AI capabilities for tailoring phishing lures and analyzing compromised inboxes to identify high-value targets. This AI-powered cybercrime platform facilitated sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) campaigns that compromised more than 12,000 inboxes in over 10,000 organizations worldwide.
EvilTokens enabled threat actors to abuse the device code authentication flow, steal tokens, and compromise organizational accounts at scale using an AI-driven infrastructure and automating multiple parts of the attack chain. The toolkit offered a plethora of prebuilt phishing templates and landing pages with an AI-powered assistant to aid in structuring target-specific emails.
Read more…
Source: Microsoft News
Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox
Related:
- Toddler mobile banking malware surges across Europe
July 16, 2021
Researchers have provided a deep dive into Toddler, a new Android banking Trojan that is surging across Europe. In a report shared with ZDNet, the PRODAFT Threat Intelligence (PTI) team said that the malware, also known as TeaBot/Anatsa, is part of a rising trend of mobile banking malware attacking countries, including Spain, Germany, Switzerland, and the ...
- DDoS attack registered on Russian Defense Ministry website
July 16, 2021
The official website of the Russian Defense Ministry is down due to a DDoS attack, a source in the law enforcement informed TASS on Friday. “Specialists from the defense ministry are repelling a DDoS attack on the official website of the Defense Ministry,” the source said. Read more… Source: TASS
- Cyberattack on Moldova’s Court of Accounts destroyed public audits
July 16, 2021
Moldova’s “Court of Accounts” has suffered a cyberattack leading to the agency’s public databases and audits being destroyed. Court of Accounts of Moldova is a government authority that performs audits of public financial resources and government agencies to comply with international standards. Read more… Source: Bleeping Computer
- Linux Variant of HelloKitty Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi Servers
July 16, 2021
For the first time, researchers have publicly spotted a Linux encryptor used by the HelloKitty ransomware gang: the outfit behind the February attack on videogame developer CD Projekt Red. On Wednesday, MalwareHunterTeam disclosed its discovery of numerous Linux ELF-64 versions of the HelloKitty ransomware targeting VMware ESXi servers and virtual machines (VMs) running on them. Read more… Source: ...
- US State Department offering $10 million reward for state-backed hackers
July 15, 2021
The State Department announced a $10 million reward for any information about hackers working for foreign governments. The measure is aimed squarely at those participating in “malicious cyber activities against US critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.” Officials said in a release that this included ransomware attacks targeting “critical infrastructure.” Read more… Source: ...
- LuminousMoth APT: Sweeping attacks for the chosen few
July 14, 2021
handpick a set of targets that in turn are handled with almost surgical precision, with infection vectors, malicious implants and payloads being tailored to the victims’ identities or environment. It’s not often we observe a large-scale attack conducted by actors fitting this profile, usually due to such attacks being noisy, and thus putting the underlying ...