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Social Engineering Leveled Up. Has Your Security Program?
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Social Engineering Leveled Up. Has Your Security Program?

Huntress blog on how social engineering has outpaced traditional prevention-focused security programs, citing specific campaigns: EvilTokens, a phishing-as-a-service operation that weaponized the Railway cloud deployment platform and Cloudflare Workers to run OAuth device code phishing against 340+ organizations, and a campaign using fake ChatGPT/Grok search results to trick macOS users into installing the AMOS infostealer. Also discusses AI-driven deepfake identity attacks and alert fatigue undermining detection.

TL;DR Vendor writeup on device-code phishing, deepfake identity attacks, and the EvilTokens PHaaS campaign abusing Railway/Cloudflare to deliver AMOS infostealer via fake AI-support pages.

Technologies named here

Techniques named here

  • Device code phishing
  • Deepfake/AI identity impersonation
  • Phishing-as-a-service via legitimate cloud infrastructure
  • Calendar phishing / everyday workflow abuse

Threat actors named here