Cybernews reports that Microsoft Teams has been increasingly leveraged by cybercriminals and state-backed threat actors to facilitate illicit cyber activity.
A new wave of smishing attacks is exploiting user trust by embedding well-known brand names such as FedEx and Microsoft into deceptive URLs and group text messages, according to recent security analyses, GBHackers News reports.
Attacks spreading the new FoalShell and StallionRAT payloads have been launched by the Cavalry Werewolf threat operation against state agencies and energy, manufacturing, and mining firms across Russia as part of a new phishing campaign that ran between May and August, reports The Hacker News.
Threat actors have abused Milesight Industrial Cellular routers' APIs to launch a wave of smishing attacks across Europe, according to Infosecurity Magazine.
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