Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams voice calls abused to push Matanbuchus malware
The Matanbuchus malware loader has been seen being distributed through social engineering over Microsoft Teams calls impersonating IT helpdesk. Matanbuchus is a malware-as-a-service operation seen promoted on the dark web first in early 2021. It was advertised as a $2,500 Windows loader that executes malicious payloads directly in memory to evade detection. In June 2022, threat analyst Brad […]
ChatGPT will soon record, transcribe, and summarize your meetings
OpenAI may be planning to challenge Microsoft Teams Copilot integration with a new “Record” feature in ChatGPT. While ChatGPT supports third-party services, it’s not yet possible to use it to summarize live meetings or generate an AI-powered transcript. As spotted by X user M1Astra, ChatGPT mobile app code clearly mentions a “Record” feature for live meetings that supports […]
Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings. Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content. The company plans to start rolling out this new Teams feature to Android, desktop, iOS, and web users worldwide in July […]
New Microsoft 365 outage impacts Teams and other services
Microsoft is investigating a new Microsoft 365 outage affecting multiple services across North America, including the company’s Teams collaboration platform. Since the incident started over two hours ago, outage monitoring service Downdetector has received thousands of user reports, with most affected users saying they’re experiencing server connection and website problems when trying to access Microsoft 365 […]
Microsoft is killing Skype today, pushes users to Teams
The Skype video call and messaging service is shutting down today, 14 years after replacing Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger. Skype was first released in August 2003 by a collective of Swedish, Danish, and Estonian developers and was sold to eBay two years later, in September 2005, which bought it for $2.6 billion. Microsoft acquired the telecommunications […]
Microsoft Teams tactics, malware connect Black Basta, Cactus ransomware
New research has uncovered further links between the Black Basta and Cactus ransomware gangs, with members of both groups utilizing the same social engineering attacks and the BackConnect proxy malware for post-exploitation access to corporate networks. In January, Zscaler discovered a Zloader malware sample that contained what appeared to be a new DNS tunneling feature. Further research by […]
New Microsoft 365 outage impacts Teams, causes call failures
Microsoft is investigating a new Microsoft 365 outage that is affecting Teams customers and causing call failures. Since the incident started more than one hour ago, outage monitoring service Downdetector has received hundreds of reports, with affected users saying they’re also experiencing authentication problems. “Users may not be able to receive calls placed through Microsoft Teams-provisioned auto attendants and call […]
Microsoft links recent Microsoft 365 outage to buggy update
Microsoft says a coding issue is behind a now-resolved Microsoft 365 outage over the weekend that affected Outlook and Exchange Online authentication. According to an incident report published in the Microsoft 365 admin center on Saturday at 09:29 PM UTC, the incident also triggered Teams and Power Platform degraded functionality and caused Purview access issues and errors. […]
Microsoft confirms it’s killing off Skype in May, after 14 years
Microsoft has confirmed that the Skype video call and messaging service will be shut down in May, 14 years after replacing the Windows Live Messenger. A reader contacted GeekFeed, and shared that according to strings found in preview versions of Skype for Windows, the company will ask users to switch to Teams Free, with all their […]
Microsoft Teams phishing attack alerts coming to everyone next month
Microsoft reminded Microsoft 365 admins that its new brand impersonation protection feature for Teams Chat will be available for all customers by mid-February 2025. Once enabled, it will display alerts when detecting phishing attacks targeting organizations that have enabled external Teams access (which allows threat actors to message any user from external domains). The company […]