What is ShinyHunters vishing?

Sophisticated voice phishing pretending IT support to steal SSO/MFA, then raid SaaS apps for extortion data.

How to stop ShinyHunters attacks?

Switch to FIDO2/passkeys, monitor domains/logs, train staff on urgent IT calls.

No vuln in Okta, but phish kits target it—overlap with ShinyHunters seen; use phishing-resistant MFA.

Phone rings. Employee picks up, hears IT urgency. Boom—your entire SaaS empire cracks open. ShinyHunters are scaling vishing like never before.

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ShinyHunters use vishing + fake SSO sites to breach SaaS via social engineering, not exploits. 𝕏
Escalating to harassment; targets expanding as cloud permissions enable opportunistic data grabs. 𝕏
Phishing-resistant MFA like FIDO2 is key defense—SMS/push vulnerable forever. 𝕏

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Originally reported by Mandiant Blog