{"id":851,"date":"2024-05-16T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/cybercriminals-exploiting-microsofts-quick-assist-feature-in-ransomware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T05:15:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:15:06","slug":"cybercriminals-exploiting-microsofts-quick-assist-feature-in-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/cybercriminals-exploiting-microsofts-quick-assist-feature-in-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals Exploiting Microsoft\u2019s Quick Assist Feature in Ransomware Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat it tracks under\u00a0the name\u00a0Storm-1811\u00a0abusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks.<br \/>\n&#8220;Storm-1811 is a financially motivated cybercriminal group known to deploy\u00a0Black Basta\u00a0ransomware,&#8221; the company\u00a0said\u00a0in a report published on May 15, 2024.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat it tracks under\u00a0the name\u00a0Storm-1811\u00a0abusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks.<br \/>\n&#8220;Storm-1811 is a financially motivated cybercriminal group known to deploy\u00a0Black Basta\u00a0ransomware,&#8221; the company\u00a0said\u00a0in a report published on May 15, 2024.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat it tracks under\u00a0the name\u00a0Storm-1811\u00a0abusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks. &#8220;Storm-1811 is a financially motivated cybercriminal group known to deploy\u00a0Black Basta\u00a0ransomware,&#8221; the company\u00a0said\u00a0in a report published on May 15, 2024. The\u00a0The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/cybercriminals-exploiting-microsofts-quick-assist-feature-in-ransomware-attacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cybercriminals Exploiting Microsoft\u2019s Quick Assist Feature in Ransomware Attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":852,"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\/851"}],"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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}