{
  "id": 261897,
  "title": "Malware Can Abuse Windows Hello for Business Keys for Persistent Entra ID Access",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/malware-can-abuse-windows-hello-for-business-keys-for-persistent",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-07T08:52:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/malware-can-abuse-windows-hello-for.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Entra ID researcher Dirk-jan Mollema demonstrated that malware already running in a signed-in Windows session can silently use the victim's Windows Hello for Business key to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The attacker can then establish longer-term cloud access, register a device it controls, obtain a Primary Refresh Token (PRT), and add further authentication methods where tenant policies",
  "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."
}