{
  "id": 261894,
  "title": "Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/microsoft-365-aitm-phishing-hijacks-accounts-to-collect-payroll-and",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-07T10:38:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-365-aitm-phishing-hijacks.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active \"widespread email-driven phishing campaign\" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email. \"The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic,",
  "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."
}