{"id":234978,"date":"2026-04-11T02:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/microsoft-canadian-employees-targeted-in-payroll-pirate-attacks"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:13:52","slug":"microsoft-canadian-employees-targeted-in-payroll-pirate-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/microsoft-canadian-employees-targeted-in-payroll-pirate-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: Canadian employees targeted in payroll pirate attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-canadian-employees-targeted-in-payroll-pirate-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Storm-2755 is stealing Canadian employees\u2019 salary payments after hijacking their accounts in payroll pirate attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers used malicious Microsoft 365 sign-in pages to steal victims\u2019 authentication tokens and session cookies by redirecting them to domains (e.g., bluegraintours[.]com) hosting malicious web pages (pushed to the top of search engine results through malvertising or SEO poisoning) that masqueraded as Microsoft 365 sign-in forms.<\/p>\n<p>This allowed Storm-2755 to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA) in adversary\u2011in\u2011the\u2011middle (AiTM) attacks by replaying stolen session tokens rather than re-authenticating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Storm-2755 is stealing Canadian employees\u2019 salary payments after hijacking their accounts in payroll pirate attacks. The attackers used malicious Microsoft 365 sign-in pages to steal victims\u2019 authentication tokens and session cookies by redirecting them to domains (e.g., bluegraintours[.]com) hosting malicious web pages (pushed to the top of search [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}