0ktapus: The SMS Phishing Wave That Hit 130+ Companies
Fake Okta pages, real-time MFA relay, and one crew harvesting 10,000 identities. Why Cloudflare walked away clean and Twilio didn’t.
Fake Okta pages, real-time MFA relay, and one crew harvesting 10,000 identities. Why Cloudflare walked away clean and Twilio didn’t.
A routine upgrade left message proofs rubber-stamped. Hundreds of copycats drained the bridge in crypto’s most chaotic heist.
A patched OAuth endpoint answered one question too honestly: which phone belongs to which handle. The dataset sold for $30k — the class lesson is still with us.
A criminal franchise paid up to $1M for flaws in its own malware, website, and Tor infrastructure — Silicon Valley tactics inside the ransomware economy.
Five thousand cloud VMs, each pushing 5,000 rps of encrypted traffic at one small website. June 2022’s record flood and the edge doctrine it sealed.
A 2-of-5 multisig guarding nine figures. Lazarus took the two keys it needed, and the bridge-custody era changed for good.
Sixteen days between disclosure and patch. Who exploited Follina in the gap, how fast state and commodity actors moved, and the doctrine it forged.
Exploited in the wild two days before the patch existed. How OGNL injection turned Confluence into June 2022’s internet-scale fire drill — and the playbook it left behind.
A protocol handler, a remote template, a signed diagnostic tool — CVE-2022-30190 executed PowerShell from a Word file with macros fully disabled.
Rotating MAC addresses were supposed to make Bluetooth anonymous. May 2022’s synthesis of research, stalker hardware, and detection tools proved they never did.
GitHub’s OAuth tokens lived in Heroku’s infrastructure. One compromised CI cache later, an ecosystem learned where vendor tokens really live.
No stolen keys, no exploit — just a death spiral in the mechanism itself. Why UST’s fall is mandatory reading for DeFi threat modelling.
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