{"id":6770,"date":"2026-01-23T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/microsoft-flags-multi-stage-aitm-phishing-and-bec-attacks-targeting-energy-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:15:49","slug":"microsoft-flags-multi-stage-aitm-phishing-and-bec-attacks-targeting-energy-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/microsoft-flags-multi-stage-aitm-phishing-and-bec-attacks-targeting-energy-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Flags Multi-Stage AitM Phishing and BEC Attacks Targeting Energy Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft has warned of a multi\u2011stage adversary\u2011in\u2011the\u2011middle (AitM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector.<br \/>\n&#8220;The campaign abused SharePoint file\u2011sharing services to deliver phishing payloads and relied on inbox rule creation to maintain persistence and evade user awareness,&#8221; the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said.\u00a0Microsoft has warned of a multi\u2011stage adversary\u2011in\u2011the\u2011middle (AitM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector.<br \/>\n&#8220;The campaign abused SharePoint file\u2011sharing services to deliver phishing payloads and relied on inbox rule creation to maintain persistence and evade user awareness,&#8221; the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said.\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft has warned of a multi\u2011stage adversary\u2011in\u2011the\u2011middle (AitM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector. &#8220;The campaign abused SharePoint file\u2011sharing services to deliver phishing payloads and relied on inbox rule creation to maintain persistence and evade user awareness,&#8221; the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said.\u00a0Microsoft has warned of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/microsoft-flags-multi-stage-aitm-phishing-and-bec-attacks-targeting-energy-firms\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Flags Multi-Stage AitM Phishing and BEC Attacks Targeting Energy Firms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6771,"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\/6770"}],"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=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}