I Almost Got Hacked on a Microsoft Teams Call — Here’s How the Scam Works

I Almost Got Hacked on a Microsoft Teams Call — Here’s How the Scam Works

Let me tell you how I came within steps of becoming a victim in an elaborate social engineering scheme designed to exploit something so routine and apparently harmless as a Microsoft Teams call earlier today.  For most of the interaction, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.  Someone who I thought was an industry contact reached out to me to set up a meeting on Microsoft Teams, and the willing collaborator in me was only to happy to jump on the c…