{"id":10562,"date":"2026-10-27T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/microsoft-authenticator-flaw-let-permissionless-android-apps-steal-work-account-tokens\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:17:10","slug":"microsoft-authenticator-flaw-let-permissionless-android-apps-steal-work-account-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/microsoft-authenticator-flaw-let-permissionless-android-apps-steal-work-account-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Let Permissionless Android Apps Steal Work Account Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft has fixed a flaw in its Authenticator app for Android that let a malicious app with no permissions pose as a trusted Microsoft app, such as Teams, and collect sign-in tokens for a victim&#8217;s work account.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft tracks the flaw as\u00a0CVE-2026-80097\u00a0and fixed it in Authenticator for Android version 6.2606.4246, so anyone using the app should update.<\/p>\n<p>In the researchers&#8217; tests,\u00a0Microsoft has fixed a flaw in its Authenticator app for Android that let a malicious app with no permissions pose as a trusted Microsoft app, such as Teams, and collect sign-in tokens for a victim&#8217;s work account.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft tracks the flaw as\u00a0CVE-2026-80097\u00a0and fixed it in Authenticator for Android version 6.2606.4246, so anyone using the app should update.<\/p>\n<p>In the researchers&#8217; tests,\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft has fixed a flaw in its Authenticator app for Android that let a malicious app with no permissions pose as a trusted Microsoft app, such as Teams, and collect sign-in tokens for a victim&#8217;s work account. Microsoft tracks the flaw as\u00a0CVE-2026-80097\u00a0and fixed it in Authenticator for Android version 6.2606.4246, so anyone using the app&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/microsoft-authenticator-flaw-let-permissionless-android-apps-steal-work-account-tokens\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Let Permissionless Android Apps Steal Work Account Tokens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}