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Andrea Sivieri

The enemy within: how to stop a simple Teams message taking down your business

A line of robots typing at computers.

Microsoft recently warned that attackers are impersonating IT help desks on Teams to gain access – and if that sounds bad, well, it’s just the opening move.

The attack begins when an employee gets a message from an external user claiming to be part of the company’s third-party IT support. A common-enough setup, and the kind of thing you might expect in a normal working day.

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