Fake Teams Help Desk Chats Deliver Chaos Ransomware

Fake Teams help desk chats deliver Chaos ransomware

Arctic Wolf analyzed over 400 incidents of fake IT staff in Microsoft Teams chats pushing remote tools, and Sophos ties related attacks to Chaos ransomware.

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Threat actors are abusing Microsoft Teams’ external chat creation feature to target employees for initial access into organizations, new research by Arctic Wolf has found. The researchers said they had observed over 400 incidents in which the function was abused, with “highly consistent” IT-support impersonation tactics deployed by the malicious actors. The attack chain is […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!

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. The security company documented more than 400 incidents in which the external chat feature in Teams was abused. In many of these cases, the fake help desk message arrived minutes after the victim’s inbox had been filled with hundreds of newsletter and subscription conf…