Through a recent report by PIXM, a cybersecurity firm specialising in artificial intelligence solutions, public schools in the United States face a significant increase in sophisticated phishing campaigns. Threat actors are employing targeted spear phishing attacks, utilising stealthy patterns to target officials in large school districts, effectively bypassing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) protections.
Since December 2023, there has been a surge in MFA-based phishing campaigns targeting teachers, staff, and administrators across the US. The attackers, identified as the Tycoon and Storm-1575 threat groups, employ social engineering techniques and Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing to bypass MFA tokens and session cookies. They create custom login experiences and use services like dadsec and Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) to compromise administrator email accounts and deliver ransomware.
The Tycoon Group’s PhaaS, available on Telegram for just $120, boasts features like bypassing Microsoft’s two-factor authentication. Meanwhile, Microsoft identifies Storm-1575 as a threat actor engaging in phishing campaigns through the Dadsec platform. The attacks involve phishing emails prompting officials to update passwords, leading them to encounter a Cloudflare Captcha and a spoofed Microsoft password page. If successful, attackers forward passwords to legitimate login pages, requesting two-factor authentication codes and bypassing MFA protections.
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