Covered by 2 outlets — first reported by The Hacker News, Oct 26, 15:52 UTC
Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware
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Summary
Attackers are posing as IT support staff in Microsoft Teams chats to trick employees into installing malware, including ransomware. The Hacker News reports researchers describe a recurring pattern across hundreds of cases in which attackers use Teams' external chat feature, with the same throwaway tenants and IT help desk lures. Help Net Security reports Arctic Wolf documented more than 400 incidents, in many of which the fake help desk message arrived minutes after the victim's inbox was flooded with hundreds of newsletter and subscription confirmations.
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2 outlets, in the order they reported it.
The Hacker NewsFirst report
Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams…
Help Net Security
Hackers bury inboxes in spam then show up on Microsoft Teams posing as IT support
Threat actors are flooding employees’ inboxes with spam and then contacting them on Microsoft Teams as IT support, offering to fix the problem they created, Arctic Wolf has found.
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