{"id":9362,"date":"2025-12-20T07:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/russia-linked-hackers-use-microsoft-365-html\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:01:44","slug":"russia-linked-hackers-use-microsoft-365-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/russia-linked-hackers-use-microsoft-365-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Linked Hackers Use Microsoft 365 Device Code Phishing for Account Takeovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Russia-Linked Hackers Use Microsoft 365 Device Code Phishing for Account Takeovers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A suspected Russia-aligned group has been attributed to a phishing campaign that employs device code authentication workflows to steal victims&#8217; Microsoft 365 credentials and conduct account takeover attacks.<br \/>\nThe activity, ongoing since September 2025, is being tracked by Proofpoint under the moniker UNK_AcademicFlare.<br \/>\nThe attacks involve using compromised email addresses belonging to government<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/12\/russia-linked-hackers-use-microsoft-365.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia-Linked Hackers Use Microsoft 365 Device Code Phishing for Account Takeovers A suspected Russia-aligned group has been attributed to a phishing campaign that employs device code authentication workflows to steal victims&#8217; Microsoft 365 credentials and conduct account takeover attacks. The activity, ongoing since September 2025, is being tracked by Proofpoint under the moniker UNK_AcademicFlare. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-9362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}