Security News > 2024 > May > Cybercriminals Exploiting Microsoft’s Quick Assist Feature in Ransomware Attacks
2024-05-16 03:16
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat it tracks under the name Storm-1811 abusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks. "Storm-1811 is a financially motivated cybercriminal group known to deploy Black Basta ransomware," the company said in a report published on May 15, 2024. The
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