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Attackers are exploiting the surge in the use of Microsoft Teams in an attempt to trap unsuspecting users, says Abnormal Security.

Phishing attacks spoof Microsoft Teams to steal user credentials

A highly convincing phishing campaign is using cloned imagery from automated Microsoft Teams notifications in attacks that attempt to harvest Office 365 credentials.

The Microsoft Teams cloud collaboration platform has experienced a huge usage spike since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Microsoft announcing on March 30 that the platform has reached 75 million daily active users (DAUs), with a 70% increase since March 19 when it reported 44 million DAUs.


 
The phishing emails that spoof Microsoft Teams file share and audio chat notifications have so far landed in the inboxes of 15,000 to 50,0000 targets based on stats from researchers as email security company Abnormal Security.

Convincing Office 365 phishing uses fake Microsoft Teams alerts

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A new phishing attack was discovered toward the end of last week that aims to steal people's Office 365 login details. The attack used cloned imagery to send convincing emails that pretends to be Microsoft Teams notifications.

Tricky phishing attack targets Microsoft Teams users — here's how to protect yourself

A recently uncovered phishing campaign is spoofing notifications from Microsoft's Teams collaboration platform in order to harvest Office 365 credentials from employees working from home offices because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The email message in this phishing campaign tells victims that their signature is needed on a document entitled "PPP_CARES_SignaturePG1-2," and contains a link to a webpage that supposedly has more information.

Latest Phishing Campaign Spoofs Microsoft Teams Messages

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A new report reveals how security researchers have observed thousands of cloned Microsoft Team login pages being used in an attempt to harvest account passwords.

Beware This New Microsoft Teams Password Hacking Threat To 75 Million Users

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Even though nearly three-quarters of business email compromise attacks during the past year have emerged from Nigeria, Israel has been gaining traction as a base for sophisticated BEC campaigns.

Israel-based BEC attacks on the rise

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Israel-based threat actors show growing sophistication of email attacks

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The group, identified by Abnormal Security, targets multinational firms using email display name spoofing and multiple fake personas.

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A BEC campaign has been tracked to a threat group in Israel, an unlikely genesis for a cyberattack of any kind, Abnormal Security said in a new report.

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Researchers at Abnormal Security discovered an Israel-based threat group carrying out a BEC campaign primarily targeting large and multinational enterprises with an average annual revenue of over $10 billion.

BEC Campaign via Israel Spotted Targeting Large Multinational Companies

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