Special phishing tool breaks through MFA protection for accounts
Cyber criminals are increasingly using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to hijack executive accounts. That's what IT security experts from Proofpoint found out. They saw an increase of over 100 percent over the past six months in incidents where cybercriminals were able to gain access to the cloud accounts of high-level executives at major companies. More than 100 companies worldwide with a total of over 1,5 million employees are affected. The criminals used EvilProxy for their attacks. This is a phishing tool with a reverse proxy architecture that allows attackers to steal MFA-protected credentials and session cookies. Avoid attackers...