Slippery AiTM attacks targeted more than 10,000 orgs over the past nine months
that such attacks will become more common as organizations embrace MFA.
There also were similarities in their activities after the security breach, including enumerating sensitive data in the victim's email and running payment fraud schemes. The payment fraud was designed to trick a target into transferring payments to sites owned by the attacker by hijacking and replying to ongoing finance-related emails threads in the compromised account's mailbox and luring the target to send money through such methods as fake invoices.
For days after stealing the cookie, the attacker got into finance-related emails and file attachments every few hours and searched for outgoing email threads to find any that could be using in payment fraud schemes. To cover their tracks, the intruder also deleted the initial phishing email from the compromised account's inbox. These activities suggest the cyber-thief tried to run the payment fraud scam manually.
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