{"id":9739,"date":"2026-09-07T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/fake-it-calls-target-executives-in-microsoft-365-data-theft-and-extortion-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:11:33","slug":"fake-it-calls-target-executives-in-microsoft-365-data-theft-and-extortion-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/fake-it-calls-target-executives-in-microsoft-365-data-theft-and-extortion-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake IT Calls Target Executives in Microsoft 365 Data Theft and Extortion Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that&#8217;s targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings through information technology (IT) help desk vishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) token theft, and residential-proxy sign-ins.<\/p>\n<p>The activity, which mainly singles out directors, vice presidents, and other executive staff\u00a0Threat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that&#8217;s targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings through information technology (IT) help desk vishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) token theft, and residential-proxy sign-ins.<\/p>\n<p>The activity, which mainly singles out directors, vice presidents, and other executive staff\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that&#8217;s targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings through information technology (IT) help desk vishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) token theft, and residential-proxy sign-ins. The activity, which mainly singles out directors, vice presidents, and other executive staff\u00a0Threat hunters have disclosed details of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/fake-it-calls-target-executives-in-microsoft-365-data-theft-and-extortion-attacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake IT Calls Target Executives in Microsoft 365 Data Theft and Extortion Attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9740,"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\/9739"}],"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=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}