2026 Critical Cloud Identity Detection: Unverified Publisher App Granted Broad Multi-Resource OAuth Consent
This rule detects when a user or admin grants consent to an unverified OAuth application that simultaneously requests sensitive delegated permissions across multiple categories (Mail, Files, Directory, and Contacts). This pattern is a strong indicator of consent phishing attacks, where adversaries trick users into granting broad permissions to a malicious application to harvest sensitive data or gain persistent access to a Microsoft 365 environment.
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