That invitation to a Teams call on which IT promises to mop up a spamstorm may not be what it seems

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Sophos spots fake tech support scams with ransomware links

Email bombing is similar to the popular IT scam, but with a simple twist.

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Microsoft Teams abused in Russian email bombing ransomware campaign

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Ransomware gangs are increasingly adopting email bombing followed by posing as tech support in Microsoft Teams calls to trick employees into allowing remote control and install malware that provides access to the company network.

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Ransomware gangs pose as IT support in Microsoft Teams phishing attacks

Sophos has warned of IT impersonation vishing attacks designed to remotely deploy ransomware This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: Russian Ransomware Groups Deploy Email Bombing and Teams Vishing Read more → The post Russian Ransomware Groups Deploy Email Bombing and Teams Vishing appeared first on IT Security News.

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Russian Ransomware Groups Deploy Email Bombing and Teams Vishing

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Sophos MDR identifies a new threat cluster riffing on the playbook of Storm-1811, and amped-up activity from the original connected to Black Basta ransomware. 

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Sophos MDR tracks two ransomware campaigns using “email bombing,” Microsoft Teams “vishing”

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The “email bombing + posing as tech support via Microsoft Teams” combination is proving fruitful for two threat actors looking to deliver ransomware to organizations, and they seem to be ramping up their efforts. “Sophos MDR has observed more than 15 incidents involving these tactics in the past three months, with half of them in the past two weeks,” the company’s incident responders have warned today. The threat actors are social-engineering th…

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