Beyond the Inbox: How Threat Actors Abuse Microsoft Teams External Chat for Initial Access
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Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware | #ransomware | #cybercrime - National Cyber Security Consulting
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 or to deliver malware. "A consistent pattern of attacker behavior has emerged across these incidents: the use of the same throwaway […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!
In hundreds of cases, Arctic Wolf Labs has observed a recurring social engineering pattern in which attackers use the external chat creation feature in Microsoft teams to output as trusted persons or spread malicious files. This shows a consistent approach: The attackers repeatedly use the same temporarily created tenants, the same ad names as "IT Support (Internal), [...] The article Arctic Wolf observes recurring social engineering pattern fir…
Beyond the Inbox: How Threat Actors Abuse Microsoft Teams External Chat for Initial Access
Arctic Wolf has observed a recurring social engineering pattern in more than 400 incidents where threat actors have used Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature for impersonation scams, or to deliver malicious files.
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