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Fake OAuth client IDs are helping attackers slip past sign-in logs
Attackers running account enumeration against Microsoft cloud tenants have added a step that keeps their probing out of the usual telemetry. They spoof the OAuth client ID, the globally unique identifier assigned to an application and passed as client_id in an authentication requ
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Attackers running account enumeration against Microsoft cloud tenants have added a step that keeps their probing out of the usual telemetry. They spoof the OAuth client ID, the globally unique identifier assigned to an application and passed as client_id in an authentication request. Microsoft Entra ID records that value as the application ID in its sign-in logs, and the way it handles unfamiliar identifiers opens a gap that operators have started to work through. Entra … More → The post Fake OAuth client IDs are helping attackers slip past sign-in logs appeared first on Help Net Security.