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The “email bombing + posing as tech support via Microsoft Teams” combination is proving fruitful for two threat actors looking to deliver ransomware to organizations, and they seem to be ramping up their efforts. “Sophos MDR has observed more than 15 incidents involving these tactics in the past three months, with half of them in the past two weeks,” the company’s incident responders have warned today. The threat actors are social-engineering their way in To … More → The post Ransomware attackers are “vishing” organizations via Microsoft Teams appeared first on Help Net Security.
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