{"id":244387,"date":"2026-09-23T01:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/eviltokens-phaas-disrupted-after-compromising-12000-microsoft-accounts"},"modified":"2026-09-23T01:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:16:42","slug":"eviltokens-phaas-disrupted-after-compromising-12000-microsoft-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/eviltokens-phaas-disrupted-after-compromising-12000-microsoft-accounts","title":{"rendered":"EvilTokens PhaaS disrupted after compromising 12,000 Microsoft accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eviltokens-phaas-disrupted-after-compromising-12000-microsoft-accounts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EvilTokens platform that compromised more than 12,000 Microsoft accounts at over 10,000 organizations has been disrupted in an effort led by Microsoft\u2019s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU).<\/p>\n<p>The phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation emerged in February and was the first to support device code authentication at scale and offer cybercriminals AI-powered features for customizing lures and sifting through compromised inboxes to identify high-value targets.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement today, Microsoft said it coordinated the takedown of EvilTokens\u2019 infrastructure, an action that involved the Health-ISAC, law enforcement, and SpyCloud, an identity threat protection company based in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EvilTokens platform that compromised more than 12,000 Microsoft accounts at over 10,000 organizations has been disrupted in an effort led by Microsoft\u2019s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). The phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation emerged in February and was the first to support device code authentication at scale and offer cybercriminals AI-powered features for customizing lures and sifting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244387","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=244387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}