Microsoft Teams Hack Report Shows Old-School Attacks Are Still a Thing - CNET

Over the last year, the public has been trained to view the biggest new wave of emerging cyberthreats as AI-driven. In fact, frontier AI models accelerating the pace of cyberattacks — and even jumping ahead so far that the models have to be paused in the case of Anthropic’s Mythos — have driven the cybersecurity conversation recently.

But a recent report from Microsoft detailing how hackers used its Teams software to infiltrate corporate systems shows that human hackers are still using social engineering scams to fool other humans into doing their dirty work.

According to the report, “threat actors used Microsoft Teams messages and calls to impersonate IT or help desk personnel and socially engineer users into granting interactive remote access, primarily through Quick Assist.” Once they were granted access by unsuspecting workers, the hackers were able to set up software using Python, Bun or Java runtimes, open up...

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