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The attack is quite good, it'll probably work in many cases. I wonder why I would land on a dubious website, and why I would want to log in on it.

While the attack might work, I doubt the most of accounts collected would be very valuable for the attacker. It would be mostly people looking for free porn or broke people trying to pirate some movie.



> I wonder why I would land on a dubious website, and why I would want to log in on it.

Random phishing attacks via e-mail? Someone posing as a colleague or whatever, telling people to use this new thing for whatever reason, like a dubious OneDrive link.

Bonus credibility points: it uses login with MS, so it must be legit, since we're all using Office365!

Plus, random-non-tech-literate person won't be tipped off by MS requiring another login, especially since they've been trained by IT to log in very often thanks to ridiculously short session durations.




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