Protecting organizations against AITM: lessons learned.
Protecting Hundreds of Organizations Against AiTM: Lessons Learned" dives into the evolving threat of AiTM) attacks. Our presentation highlights the transition from basic phishing tactics to sophisticated methods that compromise organizational security. The presentation outlines the journey from oldschool phishing attacks, to phishing framework like UADMIN, and the introduction of tools like Evilginx. And now the SaaS providers allowing anyone to buy access to an AiTM platform.
We’ve introduced a free method of detecting AiTM attacks. Which has allowed us an insight into the scale of AiTM attacks atleast against Microsoft M365 tenants. This prompted the development of a fingerprinting tool to gain an insight into the different actors performing these attacks and typical methods they employ.
We give an insight into a popular AiTM SaaS platform and the revenue stream hosting such software creates. The session ends by outlining common techniques to prevent these types of attacks. Most organizations use M365 and experience attacks using AITM to bypass MFA. At the same time SaaS providers are building AITM services that allow targeteted attacks allowing for supply chain attacks (AITM targeted against admin sites for: pypi, npmjs and rubygems). At the same time used for very specific scams for example against booking.com. Attackers use the booking.com hotel login to extract creditcard information for upcomming hotel guests.