Companies using Microsoft Teams got news earlier in the summer of 2023 that a Russian hacker group was using the platform to launch phishing attacks, putting a new spin on a long-known attack strategy. According to Microsoft Threat Intelligence, the hackers, identified as Midnight Blizzard, used Microsoft 365 tenants owned by small businesses compromised in previous attacks to host and launch new social engineering attacks.
Threats evolve constantly as hackers and grifters gain access to new technologies or come up with new ways to exploit old vulnerabilities. “It’s a cat and mouse game,” says Mark Ruchie, CISO of security firm Entrust.
