{"id":216742,"date":"2026-02-19T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/new-phishing-campaign-tricks-employees-into-bypassing-microsoft-365-mfa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:05:13","slug":"new-phishing-campaign-tricks-employees-into-bypassing-microsoft-365-mfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/new-phishing-campaign-tricks-employees-into-bypassing-microsoft-365-mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"New phishing campaign tricks employees into bypassing Microsoft 365 MFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4134874\/new-phishing-campaign-tricks-employees-into-bypassing-microsoft-365-mfa.html\">New phishing campaign tricks employees into bypassing Microsoft 365 MFA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4134874\/new-phishing-campaign-tricks-employees-into-bypassing-microsoft-365-mfa.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4134874\/new-phishing-campaign-tricks-employees-into-bypassing-microsoft-365-mfa.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-19 19:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cMost teams have far more integrations than they realize, and many retain broad privileges long after the original business need,\u201d he pointed out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn parallel, we should raise the security bar for any SaaS vendor we rely on, [with] clear requirements around token security, logging, incident response, and secure integration patterns, and make sure our own tenant configurations and monitoring are hardened so integration activity is least-privilege, observable, and quickly containable when something upstream is compromised,\u201d Michal added.<\/p>\n<p>Grimes said that users can be educated to check how many devices are authorized to access their Microsoft, Google, and other login accounts. They should also be continually warned to be suspicious of email links that go to a login page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4134874\/new-phishing-campaign-tricks-employees-into-bypassing-microsoft-365-mfa.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New phishing campaign tricks employees into bypassing Microsoft 365 MFA https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4134874\/new-phishing-campaign-tricks-employees-into-bypassing-microsoft-365-mfa.html Publish Date: 2026-02-19 19:21:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4134874-0-40220800-1771546829-shutterstock_2517278249.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-216742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216744,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216742\/revisions\/216744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}