Passkey-themed social engineering leads to identity and cloud compromise

    Date: 09/11/2026

    Severity: High

    Summary

    Storm-3121, Storm-3032, and other threat actors performed a Passkey-themed social engineering campaign that tricks users into fraudulent authentication workflows, leading to identity and cloud compromise. The activity combines phishing, credential theft, account takeover, exfiltration and social engineering to obtain access to cloud resources. The campaign highlights the growing abuse of legitimate authentication mechanisms to bypass user security controls and compromise enterprise identities. 

    Indicators of Compromise (IOC) List

    Domain/URLs

    passkeyhelpdesk.com

    secure-passkey.com

    setupmypasskey.com

    add-passkey.com

    integratedsso.com

    oktasession.com

    keysyncos.com

    oskeysync.com

    oskeysetup.com

    oskeyregister.com

    syncmykey.com

    myconnectkey.com

    oskeyconnect.com

    validationsetupac.com

    portalsetuphub.com

    Gurucul Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR) Queries for Detection

    Detection Query 1 :

    domainname like "passkeyhelpdesk.com" or url like "passkeyhelpdesk.com" or siteurl like "passkeyhelpdesk.com" or domainname like "oskeyconnect.com" or url like "oskeyconnect.com" or siteurl like "oskeyconnect.com" or domainname like "validationsetupac.com" or url like "validationsetupac.com" or siteurl like "validationsetupac.com" or domainname like "add-passkey.com" or url like "add-passkey.com" or siteurl like "add-passkey.com" or domainname like "setupmypasskey.com" or url like "setupmypasskey.com" or siteurl like "setupmypasskey.com" or domainname like "syncmykey.com" or url like "syncmykey.com" or siteurl like "syncmykey.com" or domainname like "keysyncos.com" or url like "keysyncos.com" or siteurl like "keysyncos.com" or domainname like "oskeysetup.com" or url like "oskeysetup.com" or siteurl like "oskeysetup.com" or domainname like "secure-passkey.com" or url like "secure-passkey.com" or siteurl like "secure-passkey.com" or domainname like "oktasession.com" or url like "oktasession.com" or siteurl like "oktasession.com" or domainname like "oskeyregister.com" or url like "oskeyregister.com" or siteurl like "oskeyregister.com" or domainname like "myconnectkey.com" or url like "myconnectkey.com" or siteurl like "myconnectkey.com" or domainname like "portalsetuphub.com" or url like "portalsetuphub.com" or siteurl like "portalsetuphub.com" or domainname like "oskeysync.com" or url like "oskeysync.com" or siteurl like "oskeysync.com" or domainname like "integratedsso.com" or url like "integratedsso.com" or siteurl like "integratedsso.com"

    Reference: 

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/09/09/passkey-themed-social-engineering-leads-identity-cloud-compromise/    


    Tags

    Threat ActorMalwareSocial EngineeringCloud InfrastructureCredential HarvestingPhishingExfiltration

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