The Hacker's 2026 Playbook: Dark Web Tactics Targeting You

The report explains ConsentFix, a social-engineering technique that hijacks Microsoft 365 sessions by convincing users to complete a seemingly legitimate OAuth consent flow (including dragging a localhost callback link), and warns that a public Russian cybercrime forum published a detailed playbook with code and infrastructure—making the attack easy to copy and scale. It recommends user awareness and detections focused on suspicious PowerShell activity and anomalous identity/session behavior to mitigate account takeover risk.