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![Verint integrates recording and compliance with Microsoft Teams calling and meeting experience](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyberattack-statistics-1-small.jpg)
Verint Systems, The Customer Engagement Company, announced the availability of its new Microsoft Teams recording integration which helps businesses across industries centrally capture, retain, analyze, and retrieve all communications from Microsoft Teams calling and meeting scenarios - including voice calling, chat, online meetings, screen sharing and more. Verint has engaged with hundreds of Microsoft customer organizations worldwide for the last decade - to provide sophisticated compliance capabilities for the entire range of Microsoft unified communications while supporting the leading UC, trading turret, mobile, and IP telephony platforms in the market.
![With increased DevOps adoption, roles in software development teams are changing](/static/build/img/news/alt/malware-statistics-2-scaled-small.jpg)
Roles across software development teams have changed as more teams adopt DevOps, according to GitLab. The survey of over 3,650 respondents from 21 countries worldwide found that rising rates of DevOps adoption and implementation of new tools has led to sweeping changes in job functions, tool choices and organization charts within developer, security and operations teams.
![ProLock Ransomware Teams Up With QakBot Trojan to Infect Victims](/static/build/img/news/prolock-ransomware-teams-up-with-qakbot-trojan-to-infect-victims.jpg)
ProLock is relatively new, but already the ransomware is making waves by using QakBot infections to access networks, gain persistence and avoid detection. A relatively new ransomware, ProLock, has paired up with the QakBot banking trojan to access victims' networks.
![Survey: Teams supported by mature DevOps practices more likely to integrate automated security](/static/build/img/news/alt/Data-Cybersecurity-Predictions-small.jpg)
Teams are deploying software from DevOps teams at an accelerated rate, according to Sonatype, providers of the Nexus platform for application security, which recently released the 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey. The survey also showed that teams with mature DevOps support were happier in their jobs.
![BlueCat Adaptive DNS gives network teams visibility over AWS resources and threat protection](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyberattack-statistics-1-small.jpg)
These new capabilities enable network teams to better integrate cloud resources in Amazon Web Services with on-premises networks, protect themselves from advanced cyber threats, and reduce the risk of network outages. Because the new universal work from home reality has introduced new risks to enterprise networks, BlueCat also introduced several security improvements to BlueCat Threat Protection, its DNS firewall solution.
![Half of IT pros believe their cybersecurity teams are ready to detect attacks](/static/build/img/news/alt/phishing-stats-2-small.jpg)
A surprising 51 percent of technology professionals and leaders are highly confident that their cybersecurity teams are ready to detect and respond to rising cybersecurity attacks during COVID-19, according to ISACA. Additionally, 59 percent say their cybersecurity team has the necessary tools and resources at home to perform their job effectively. While 80 percent of organizations shared cyber risk best practices for working at home as shelter in place orders began, 87 percent of respondents still say the rapid transition to remote work has increased data protection and privacy risk.
![Fake Microsoft Teams notification emails are hitting inboxes](/static/build/img/news/alt/Data-Cybersecurity-Predictions-2-small.jpg)
Phishers are using fake Microsoft Teams notification emails to trick users into sharing their Microsoft Teams and Office 365 login credentials. "Should the recipient fall victim to this attack, this user's credentials would be compromised. Additionally, since Microsoft Teams is linked to Microsoft Office 365, the attacker may have access to other information available with the user's Microsoft credentials via single-sign on," Abnormal Security warns.
![Phishing attacks spoof Microsoft Teams to steal user credentials](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyber-threat-stats-small.jpg)
A new phishing campaign discovered by security provider Abnormal Security is exploiting the greater use of Teams as a way to hijack Microsoft account credentials. In a blog post published on Friday, Abnormal Security found a series of convincing emails designed to spoof notification messages from Microsoft Teams.
![Microsoft Teams Impersonation Attacks Flood Inboxes](/static/build/img/news/microsoft-teams-impersonation-attacks-flood-inboxes.jpg)
Two separate attacks have targeted as many as 50,000 different Teams users, according to findings from Abnormal Security. If recipients click the link, they'll be presented with a button asking them to log in to Microsoft Teams - if that button is clicked, they're taken to a malicious page which impersonates the Microsoft Office login page in order to steal their credentials.
![Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0: Enabling Ops teams to accelerate incident detection and resolution](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-breach-statistics-small.jpg)
Moogsoft announced the release of Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0, a complete AIOps platform that enables IT Ops and DevOps teams to build a virtual Network Operations Center and work more effectively from anywhere. Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0 consolidates visibility and control of monitoring tools to help entire IT Ops and DevOps teams reduce noise, prioritize incidents, reduce escalations and ensure uptime.