buildOne report1 publisher Microsoft traces over a billion phishing messages to kits supported by resold Microsoft and Google tenants
Microsoft says kits backed by YAM Store's illicit Microsoft and Google environments supported over one billion phishing emails and SMS messages since January. Storm-3119 obtains tenants by compromise or by creating fraudulent organizations.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher Storm-3168 deleted Azure storage and a Key Vault in seven minutes using a service principal's existing roles
Microsoft says Storm-3168 used a compromised service principal to delete Azure storage accounts, a Key Vault and an App Service plan in about seven minutes. The deletions ran on roles it already held, so role scope and locks had to exist before the credentials leaked.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
Consent phishing shows up in a victim's tenant only as service principal and grant events
Consent phishing, the most common OAuth entry point according to SC World, leaves a victim tenant three audit events and no app registration record. Registration monitoring misses it, so the hunt moves to consent and delegated-grant operations in the defender's own logs.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap0
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
A seller using the name TheHatman is offering employee directory exports from nine named enterprises. Hudson Rock ties the theft to infostealer credentials, not a compromise of the provider.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 25%
- Operator
- Operator 61%
- Investor
- Investor 14%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives50
- Confidence60
Unit 42 sorted 40,000 cloud identities into job roles using two months of CloudTrail
Two months of AWS audit logs from 125 environments went through UMAP and HDBSCAN to group more than 40,000 identities by what they actually did, and the classification rules that fell out run in plain SQL.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives80
- Confidence60
Fake helpdesk calls use the passkey rollout as the pretext for Microsoft 365 intrusions
Microsoft has tracked intrusions since May in which callers posing as IT told employees a passkey update was due, then steered them to a phishing page or a device-code prompt. The enrollment step is where the chain starts.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives60
- Confidence58
Fake IT callers register their own MFA method under the Microsoft 365 identities they phish
Microsoft has tracked this since May 2026. First contact lands on an unmanaged personal phone, and the attacker's own authenticator outlives the stolen session, so tenant telemetry only starts after the account is already lost.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption45
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives65
- Confidence58
Microsoft patched an exploited Entra ID RCE on its own side of the tenant boundary
CVE-2026-69836 scored 10.0 and allowed unauthenticated remote code execution against Microsoft's identity service, and because the fix landed server-side, no customer ever had a version to check or a window to schedule.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption15
- Hype gap−35
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence30
A CVSS 10.0 RCE in Entra ID was exploited in the wild, and there was nothing to patch
Microsoft says CVE-2026-69836 is fully mitigated and needs no customer action. It has not said who exploited it, when it started, or how many tenants were touched.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives72
- Confidence46