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Snapchat, Amex sites abused in Microsoft 365 phishing attacks

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports:

Attackers abused open redirects on the websites of Snapchat and American Express in a series of phishing attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials.

Open redirects are web app weaknesses that allow threat actors to use the domains of trusted organizations and websites as temporary landing pages to simplify phishing attacks.

Read more at BleepingComputer.


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