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Operation CloudFire Phishing Campaign Hijacks Google Sessions

Google Calendar

A phishing campaign used Google Calendar invites and fake login pages to bypass multi-factor authentication and hijack corporate sessions. Security researchers tracked the attacks and assisted in taking down hundreds of domains used in the campaign.

why this severityConfirmed active phishing campaign with session hijacking.

first report
4 Nov 2026
last update
12 Nov 2026

Timeline · 1

  1. 4 Nov 2026Google Calendar phishing campaign hijacks sessions, bypasses MFA

Sources · 2

News and write-ups

  1. 2026-11-04
    Google Calendar phishing campaign hijacks sessions, bypasses MFA
    BleepingComputer · bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-calendar-phishing-campaign-hijacks-ses
  2. 2026-11-12
    Calendar Invites and Live Proxies: Inside a Google Session Hijacking Campaign
    The Hacker News · thehackernews.com/2026/11/calendar-invites-and-live-proxies.html

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Classification

AI role
No AI role
categories
General security
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
targets
Google
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
dates
happened 4 Nov 2026 · first reported 4 Nov 2026
origin
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record
confidence 0.90 · created 2026-11-04 15:36Z · updated 2026-11-12 12:41Z

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# Operation CloudFire Phishing Campaign Hijacks Google Sessions

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/operation-cloudfire-phishing-campaign-hijacks-google-session · AIR-2026-1768 · live

- Lane: Breaches & attacks
- Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation): Confirmed active phishing campaign with session hijacking.
- Fix status: No fix needed
- First reported: 2026-11-04
- AI role: No AI role
- Products: Google Calendar

## Summary

A phishing campaign used Google Calendar invites and fake login pages to bypass multi-factor authentication and hijack corporate sessions. Security researchers tracked the attacks and assisted in taking down hundreds of domains used in the campaign.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2026-11-04: Google Calendar phishing campaign hijacks sessions, bypasses MFA (https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-calendar-phishing-campaign-hijacks-sessions-bypasses-mfa)

## Sources

- 2026-11-04 BleepingComputer: Google Calendar phishing campaign hijacks sessions, bypasses MFA https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-calendar-phishing-campaign-hijacks-sessions-bypasses-mfa
- 2026-11-12 The Hacker News: Calendar Invites and Live Proxies: Inside a Google Session Hijacking Campaign https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/calendar-invites-and-live-proxies.html

Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.

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