Token Factory: The 5 Costliest US Breaches of 2025
2025’s priciest breaches weren’t “elite malware.” They were tokens + SaaS + downtime 🪙⏱️🔥
If your revoke MTTR is measured in days, the attackers already won.
2025’s priciest breaches weren’t “elite malware.” They were tokens + SaaS + downtime 🪙⏱️🔥
If your revoke MTTR is measured in days, the attackers already won.
Christmas week SOC truth: EDR “leader” in 2026 = who contains fastest and survives the intern shipping updates to prod. 🎄🧑💻🔥
Our model: CrowdStrike 50% (±8), Defender 35% (±7), SentinelOne 15% (±5).
Holiday scammers are running peak-season ops 📦🎄
“Delivery problem” texts, AI “family emergency” calls, and “pay via gift card/Zelle” pressure.
Rule: don’t click, hang up + call back, never gift cards/crypto/wires.
Part 2: OAuth consent scams went from “one guy” to a token factory 🎅🏭🔑
Salesloft/Drift showed how stolen OAuth tokens → Salesforce tenant exfil at scale. Google Cloud+1
Deep dive + defenses (verified publisher, least scope, fast revoke MTTR).
Zero-days get the headlines. Stolen tokens + OAuth consent abuse get the invoices. 🧾🔑😈
2025 pain = AiTM/device-code phishing + token replay + KEV-speed edge fires.
BRICKSTORM intel just landed: PRC actors camping in vCenter/ESXi + Windows. 🧱🕵️♂️
F5 source-code drama raises the long-run 0-day odds, but the calendar + attribution lag are savage.
Our final call: 11% UNC5221 gets publicly tied to a new 0-day before Dec 31. 🎯
2026’s nastiest SaaS breaches will ride valid tokens + “trusted” apps. We already got the trailer with the Salesloft/Drift OAuth blast radius. And the browser? Yeah, it’s part of the perimeter now. 😬🔑💬