{"id":10550,"date":"2026-10-26T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/attackers-use-microsoft-teams-it-support-scams-to-deploy-malware-and-ransomware\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:11:48","slug":"attackers-use-microsoft-teams-it-support-scams-to-deploy-malware-and-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/attackers-use-microsoft-teams-it-support-scams-to-deploy-malware-and-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a &#8220;recurring social engineering pattern&#8221; across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams&#8217; external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams or to deliver malware.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A consistent pattern of attacker behavior has emerged across these incidents: the use of the same throwaway tenants, the same &#8216;IT\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a &#8220;recurring social engineering pattern&#8221; across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams&#8217; external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams or to deliver malware.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A consistent pattern of attacker behavior has emerged across these incidents: the use of the same throwaway tenants, the same &#8216;IT\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a &#8220;recurring social engineering pattern&#8221; across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams&#8217; external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams or to deliver malware. &#8220;A consistent pattern of attacker behavior has emerged across these incidents: the use of the same throwaway&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/attackers-use-microsoft-teams-it-support-scams-to-deploy-malware-and-ransomware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}