New Phishing Toolkit Uses Passkeys to Maintain Access After Password Resets
iAuthFlow V2 is a new phishing toolkit demonstrating the rapidly improving sophistication of phishing techniques.
iAuthFlow V2 is a malware toolkit first seen on a Russian-language cybercrime forum. It is an advanced form of phishing that offers persistent access to the victim’s account, surviving a password reset.
The base toolkit is offered for sale at $10,000, with additional modules available separately. Using available information from the seller’s forum posts and demonstrations (but without acquiring or running the malware), Abnormal researchers have postulated an analysis of its operation, based on the ‘passkey’ module and employed against a Gmail account.
The target is phished in the normal manner, landing on an attacker-controlled web page that is displayed in the target’s browser. The attack requires the phish to be successful, and for the target to be fooled into entering credentials. However, unseen by the target, the attacker has a separate but connected second...
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