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Microsoft Teams: Email bombing and voice phishing
3. February 2025
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Cybercriminals are abusing Microsoft Teams as a gateway for their attacks. They then try to extract data or place ransomware. They also use email bombing and voice phishing. An initial analysis by Sophos X-Ops experts. The active threat campaign examined by Sophos X-Ops experts showed that two different groups of threat actors are infiltrating companies by abusing the functionality of the Office 365 platform and then trying to extract data or place ransomware. Particularly perfidious: the attackers use a combination of email bombing with up to 3.000 messages in less than an hour and subsequent voice or video calls...

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Enterprise Password Manager for Employees
3 January 2025
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A new SaaS solution for managing personal passwords: WALLIX One Enterprise Vault. The digital password manager can be easily integrated into users' everyday use. At the same time, it offers companies additional protection against cyber attacks and data leaks. The solution centralizes and secures employee login information. This makes it easier to share passwords within a team and ensures a fast and secure connection to applications and data. More security for teams Companies are constantly faced with new vulnerabilities, which are largely due to the decentralized management of passwords and digital identities. A Gartner…

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Attacks via Microsoft Teams – from Black Basta? 
31 October 2024
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ReliaQuest experts have discovered a broader trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics in Microsoft Teams, originally associated with the Black Basta ransomware group. The previous approach was to bombard users with email spam and get them to create a legitimate help desk ticket to resolve the issue. The attacker would then contact the end user or employee and impersonate the help desk to respond to the ticket. Teams attacks via QR codes In more recent incidents, attackers have refined their tactics by using chat messages from Microsoft Teams…

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Microsoft Teams as a phishing vector
March 6, 2024
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Hardly any place in the digital space is safe from phishing attacks these days. Even supposedly trustworthy applications and platforms such as Microsoft Teams are now being abused by malicious actors to send phishing messages. Many end users are aware of the dangers of traditional phishing attacks such as email or other media. However, you should be aware that applications such as Microsoft Teams can also represent a phishing vector. Microsoft Teams, usually considered a secure tool for corporate communication, has recently become the target of phishing attempts: cybercriminals are exploiting the “External…

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Study: Are IT security managers too confident?
10 January 2024
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While traditional IT teams in companies clearly support external experts, the majority of internal IT security managers reject outside help. But can security teams afford this or are they overconfident? An enlightening study from Trend Micro. The role of cybersecurity in the business context has undergone a significant shift: once seen as a deterrent, it is increasingly recognized as a catalyst for digitalization and business development. This emerges from a study that Trend Micro carried out together with the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS). Although companies therefore understand the importance...

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Teams: When employees divulge sensitive data
5 November 2022
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Teams: When employees divulge sensitive data

Most backup and security vendors overlook teams as an important communication channel. Employees often pass on business-critical information that also affects security. Wrong listeners can skim off information in this way. Hornetsecurity urgently points out that many companies need better protection for Microsoft Teams data. A commissioned study highlights the often-overlooked need for Teams backup and security. The survey revealed that almost half of the users (45%) often send confidential and critical information via the platform. Internal corporate communication via chat has...

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DDoS flood attacks on video conferences 
September 5, 2022
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While tools like Zoom, WebEx or Microsoft Teams have made business communication much easier during the pandemic, it also opens up a new gateway for cybercriminals for DDoS attacks, as flood attack protocols are used, according to Radware. Video conferencing systems work with the Real Time Protocol (RTP). RTP is based on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a protocol that offers neither guaranteed delivery of packets nor a mechanism for handling packets out of order. UDP is a connectionless protocol that uses datagrams embedded in IP packets to communicate without establishing a session between two…

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ownCloud introduces "Spaces" for teams and projects
10 April 2022
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ownCloud introduces "Spaces" for teams and projects

ownCloud Infinite Scale, the next generation of the file-sharing platform ownCloud, comes with “Spaces”, an innovative solution for long-term group-internal collaboration. It enables organizations to set up standalone file rooms for departments, teams or projects. These rooms are completely independent of the personal data of the individual users and can be provided with individual properties. For example, you can have several owners with administrative rights, receive fixed storage space quotas and be equipped with your own recycle bin. In the future, organizations will also have the opportunity to define individual guidelines for their individual spaces. You can then...

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Digital Guardian: Data Loss Prevention for MS Teams
September 11, 2021
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Digital Guardian: Data Loss Prevention for MS Teams

Digital Guardian offers enterprise data loss prevention for Microsoft Teams. Deep data transparency and flexible control to protect sensitive data in Microsoft's enterprise collaboration platform. Digital Guardian, a leading provider of data loss prevention (DLP) and managed detection and response (MDR), is now offering endpoint DLP visibility and security controls for Microsoft teams. The integration allows data loss prevention at enterprise level, in order to be able to protect sensitive data in hybrid working environments even better in view of the increasing use of the Microsoft collaboration platform. Seamless integration into Microsoft Teams The Endpoint DLP solution from Digital Guardian is seamlessly integrated into teams and enables ...

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Business and security officials are at odds
25 November 2020
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Meeting communication security officers

A study reveals a lack of cooperation between German business and security officers, which has negative effects. The gap is also evident in how companies respond to the global pandemic. Tenable, the cyber exposure company, identified a lack of collaboration between German business and security officials, which has proven to be detrimental to businesses, according to a new industry report. Sixty-six percent of German security officers said they did not work with business stakeholders to align cost, performance, and risk mitigation goals with the company's needs and priorities. So stated 45 ...

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