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SpecterOps Pass-the-Passkey Research Exposes Windows and Entra ID Weaknesses

August 10, 2026

SpecterOps presented Pass-the-Passkey at Black Hat USA 2026, showing that Windows stores YubiKey signatures in cleartext, enabling privileged-user impersonation via Microsoft Entra ID. The research led to CVE-2026-34348 and Microsoft mitigations.