{
  "id": 18095,
  "title": "6 Reasons Why Device Code Phishing is the Fastest-Growing Threat of 2026",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/6-reasons-why-device-code-phishing-is-the-fastest-growing-threat-of",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-07-31T11:24:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/6-reasons-why-device-code-phishing-is.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Device code phishing - the abuse of the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to steal access tokens - has evolved from a niche red-team technique to an industrial-scale threat in under six months. Designed for input-constrained devices like smart TVs, printers, and so on, the device authorization login flow has been adopted by a wide range of apps and use-cases that it wasn't originally",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}