Fake IT chats turn Microsoft Teams into a rapid malware path
Daily Cyber News: Fake IT chats turn Microsoft Teams into a rapid malware path
Employees are being flooded with unwanted email and then contacted through external Microsoft Teams chats by attackers posing as internal IT support. More than 400 incidents followed a recurring pattern. Targets were contacted in short windows, and malware sometimes began running in under 15 minutes.
Key context: This campaign abuses trusted collaboration features rather than a software vulnerability.
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