A blind spot in Microsoft’s app and add-in marketplace security allowed an eagle-eyed hacker to hijack an abandoned Outlook add-in to carry out phishing attacks that compromised 4,000 users, researchers have discovered. The app in question, AgreeTo, is, or was, a meeting scheduling tool that first appeared in 2022 but was abandoned at some point…
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‘Dead’ Outlook add-in hijacked to phish 4,000 Microsoft Office Store users
A blind spot in Microsoft’s app and add-in marketplace security allowed an eagle-eyed hacker to hijack an abandoned Outlook add-in to carry out phishing attacks that compromised 4,000 users, researchers have discovered. The app in question, AgreeTo, is, or was, a meeting scheduling tool that first appeared in 2022 but was abandoned at some point…