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Passkey-themed social engineering leads to identity and cloud compromise

CRITICAL cloud-compromise MFA-persistence social-engineering Microsoft-Graph-abuse

Strategic summary

Targeted social engineering campaign exploits passkey themes to compromise cloud identities, establishes MFA persistence, and systematically extracts data via Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, and REST APIs , typical pattern of state-sponsored APT operations with long-term persistence objectives.

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Targeted social engineering campaign exploits passkey themes to compromise cloud identities, establishes MFA persistence, and systematically extracts data via Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, and REST APIs , typical pattern of state-sponsored APT operations with long-term persistence objectives.

Risk score

Review required 42
cvss base
45.00
kev bonus
0.00
epss bonus
0.00
poc bonus
0.00
raw before weight
45.00
industry weight
1.10
freshness factor
1.00
exploitability factor
1.00
days old
0.00
vendor mismatch penalty
0.00
consensus penalty
-8.00

Path: operational

Consensus check

The pipeline self-checks before delivery. These rules lowered the score:

  • TTP_MISMATCH ATT&CK techniques in text absent from structured mapping −8
Consensus penalty:
−8.0
Total penalty:
−8.0

MITRE ATT&CK mapping

5 TTPs
Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
Priv. Escal.
Def. Evasion
Cred. Access
Discovery
Lateral Mov.
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact
Conf.: high medium low

Procedure details

Technique Tactic Procedure Conf. Source
T1583.001
Technique T1583.001 explicitly referenced in source: Microsoft Security Blog high primary
T1583
Technique T1583 explicitly referenced in source: Microsoft Security Blog high primary
T1585.002
Technique T1585.002 explicitly referenced in source: Microsoft Security Blog high primary
T1585
Technique T1585 explicitly referenced in source: Microsoft Security Blog high primary
T1078.004
Technique T1078.004 explicitly referenced in source: Microsoft Security Blog high primary
ESC