[DEEP RESEARCH] Zero-Days Are a Distraction: 2025’s Biggest Losses Were Stolen Tokens + OAuth

Part 2: the “Approve” button got promoted to assembly line supervisor. 🎅🔑

Here’s the ugly scaling lesson from 2025: attackers don’t need 0-days when they can industrialize OAuth consent + token replay. The Salesloft/Drift incident showed how stolen OAuth tokens were used to access and exfil data from Salesforce customer tenants (and even a small number of Workspace accounts).

Meanwhile, real businesses ate real downtime—M&S pegged the operating impact in the hundreds of millions range. That’s “board asks for a timeline… hourly” money.

If you want to stop the factory:

  • Treat Connected Apps like a supply chain (inventory, verified publisher, least-priv scopes, IP restrictions).

  • Track token revoke/rotate MTTR like you track P1 outages.

  • Run edge like it’s KEV-paced: isolate/patch fast (or enjoy the factory reset weekend).

Question: How many apps in your tenant can export “everything” today—and would you notice in 15 minutes or 15 days?

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https://blog.alphahunt.io/zero-days-are-a-distraction-2025s-biggest-losses-were-stolen-tokens-oauth

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