{"id":289085,"date":"2026-07-13T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/open-directory-exposes-three-evilginx-phishing-operators\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:25:08","slug":"open-directory-exposes-three-evilginx-phishing-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/open-directory-exposes-three-evilginx-phishing-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Directory Exposes Three Evilginx Phishing Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Directory Exposes Three Evilginx Phishing Operators<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/open-directory-exposes-evilginx\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-13 11:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A single misconfigured server has exposed the complete toolkit of an active a three-actor phishing ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to new research from French security firm Lexfo, the open directory was a Python HTTP server left running on a Budapest virtual private server in late April, with directory listing switched on.<\/p>\n

Phishing configurations, credential logs, remote management installers and the operator’s own Telegram session files were all readable.<\/p>\n

Behind it was a threat actor tracked as codemado, running an Evilginx-based adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) platform against corporate Microsoft 365 accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more on AiTM tooling: New Wave of AiTM Phishing Targets TikTok for Business<\/p>\n

Three Actors, One Code Lineage<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Artefacts on the server tied codemado to an Egyptian operator active on hacking forums since 2018.<\/p>\n

Beyond the phishing proxy, the host held a seven-tool remote monitoring and management (RMM) arsenal for persistence, including ScreenConnect and SimpleHelp, plus a custom bulk-mailer of his own build, MaDoO Blaster.<\/p>\n

The other two actors surfaced through the Evilginx forks codemado had cloned. Their link is technical rather than operational: the repositories were public on GitHub, so Lexfo said shared code does not prove coordination.<\/p>\n

An operator called mail-argenta was traced through infostealer logs carrying his own reused credentials, notably a MySQL password hardcoded into a phishing panel, pointing to a Nigerian individual.<\/p>\n

A third, saroula01, built a framework abusing the OAuth Device Code Flow, a legitimate Microsoft feature the victim completes on a real Microsoft page while the attacker’s backend claims the token.<\/p>\n

Device Code Campaign Ran Undetected For a Year<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Of the three, saroula01’s operation was the largest. Lexfo reconstructed a deleted configuration file from git history, and internal bot timestamps dated the campaign to June 2025, meaning it had run for more than a year without apparent interruption.<\/p>\n

Over that window, it…<\/p>\n

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