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Category: <span>Identity & Access</span>
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Someone accidentally reported your Discord account. Do not hand it to a fake admin
The apology, the screenshot and the urgent support referral are one story. Check your account independently before changing anything.
A friend wants your Steam vote. Why a small favor can become an account takeover
The request may come from an old gaming friend. Inspect the sign-in decision separately from the favor, and respond according to what you actually shared.
Before you confirm a Steam trade: inspect the exchange, not the conversation
A convincing chat cannot correct the wrong recipient or missing item. Use the final confirmation as a separate inspection of what will actually move.
Passkeys are phishing-resistant. A fake enrollment story can still steer someone into the wrong flow
The latest cloud intrusions used passkey and SSO language as a pretext, then redirected employees into token theft or device-code authorization.
The email looks ordinary. Invisible characters may be changing what security systems read
Microsoft observed phishing mail that inserted non-rendering Unicode characters into financial lure words to interfere with automated analysis.
A QR code can link an attacker’s device without breaking the messenger’s encryption
The FBI and CISA say attackers are impersonating contacts and support accounts to make targets link an unauthorized device or surrender account codes.
Kali365 packages token theft for less-technical attackers. The first lure still targets a person
The FBI says the phishing-as-a-service kit combines AI-generated lures, campaign dashboards and Microsoft 365 token capture.
The short device code does not identify whose device you are authorizing
Microsoft detailed a widespread campaign that used AI-personalized business lures to push targets into a legitimate device-code flow.