{
  "slug": "session-theft-aitm",
  "title": "Your MFA worked perfectly. The attacker was already inside the session.",
  "summary": "Adversary in the middle phishing steals the session cookie, not the password. One kit claimed 96,000 victims. Why MFA does not stop it, and what does.",
  "lede": "Adversary in the middle phishing does not steal your password. It stands between you and the real login page, lets you authenticate correctly, and walks off with the session cookie that authentication produced. One kit alone is reported to have taken more than 96,000 victims. This is a lesson about why the strongest login in the world protects nothing after the first second, and what a control has to look like if it wants to survive.",
  "date": "2026-09-03",
  "reading_time": "18 min read",
  "category": "Security",
  "tags": [
    "adversary in the middle",
    "session token theft",
    "Tycoon 2FA",
    "MFA bypass",
    "phishing resistant MFA",
    "session hijacking",
    "account takeover"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Session%20Theft%20AiTM/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/session-theft-aitm.html",
  "wordcount": 4915,
  "related": [
    "help-desk-mfa-reset-attack",
    "deepfake-cfo-wire-fraud",
    "your-okta-weakest-link"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}