PULSE NAME
Payroll pirate attacks targeting Canadian employees
WHITE Storm-2755 AlienVault 2026-04-09 Modified: 2026-04-10
3
IOCs
LOW VOLUME
Microsoft Incident Response researchers identified Storm-2755, a financially motivated threat actor conducting payroll pirate attacks against Canadian users. The campaign uses malvertising and SEO poisoning on generic search terms like "Office 365" to lure victims to a fraudulent sign-in page. Through adversary-in-the-middle techniques, the actor captures authentication tokens and session cookies, bypassing MFA protections. Storm-2755 maintains persistence using Axios HTTP client to replay stolen tokens, then conducts discovery for payroll and HR contacts. The actor impersonates compromised users to socially engineer HR staff or directly manipulates payroll systems like Workday. Malicious inbox rules hide correspondence from victims. Attacks resulted in direct financial losses through redirected salary payments to attacker-controlled bank accounts.
Indicators of Compromise (3)
All CVE URL domain
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
CVE CVE-2025-27152 2026-04-09
URL http://bluegraintours.com 2026-04-09
domain bluegraintours.com 2026-04-09