Microsoft Teams Will Use AI to Detect In-Chat Phishing
Microsoft Teams will soon use AI to detect phishing and social-engineering scams in chats. The new system will review conversation context, especially with new contacts, to spot impersonation and suspicious behavior, even without harmful links or attachments.
At the top of the system's priority list are initial messages with people outside of a user's organization, including group chats. When Teams detects a probable phishing attempt, it will display a red in-chat warning, similar to what the Google Phone app does during calls with its Spam Detection feature. Users who are confident a sender has no nefarious intent can report a trusted contact as "not a concern" if Teams wrongly flags the message.
Microsoft says the feature is only for security and will not scrape users' conversations for advertising, further content moderation, or AI model training. It will begin rolling out the feature to Targeted Release users in early November,...
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