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APT / state · Tue 04 Aug 2026 · 10:45 UTC

Russian hackers abuse hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and deploy malware

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Midnight Blizzard, the Russian threat actor tied to the country’s foreign intelligence service, has spent months targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like hotels and conference centers, according to new findings from Microsoft Threat Intelligence. Overview of the CaptiveCrunch attack flow (Source: Microsoft) Microsoft named the campaign CaptiveCrunch and identified two malware strains behind it, CornFlake and ChocoShell. …

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