Microsoft Teams Targeted With Takeover Trojans

Threat actors are targeting Microsoft Teams users by planting malicious documents in chat threads that execute Trojans that ultimately can take over end-user machines, researchers have found. In January, researchers at Avanan, a Check Point Company, began tracking the campaign, which drops...

Tiny Font Size Fools Email Filters in BEC Phishing

A new business email compromise BEC campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users is using a range of sophisticated obfuscation tactics within phishing emails that can fool natural language processing filters and are undetectable to end users. Researchers at Avanan, a CheckPoint company, first discovere...

Spoofing Bug Highlights Cybersecurity for Digital Vaccine Passports

Three weeks after an independent researcher found a critical bug in the Services Australia COVID-19 digital vaccine certificate that would allow an attacker to falsify someone’s vaccine status, it still hasn’t been fixed. Researcher Richard Nelson looked into the security behind a new digital...

Phish Swims Past Email Security with Milanote Pages

The Milanote app, billed as the “Evernote for creatives” by reviewers, has attracted the notice of cybercriminals who are abusing it to carry out credential-stealing campaigns that skate past secure email gateways SEGs, researchers said. Milanote is a tool for organizing and collaborating on...

Email Phishers Using A Simple Way to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cyber criminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass most AI-powered phishing detection mechanisms implemented by widely used email services and web security scanners. Dubbed ZeroFont, the technique involves...

Office 365 in the 0-day vulnerability baseStriker appear in the wild examples of the use-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

5 October 1, Avanan the researchers found that Office 365 appears in a named baseStriker of 0-day vulnerabilities. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to send malicious mail, bypassing the Office 365 account security mechanisms. ! baseStriker vulnerability of the code to use the less...

Hackers Found Using A New Way to Bypass Microsoft Office 365 Safe Links

Security researchers revealed a way around that some hacking groups have been found using in the wild to bypass a security feature of Microsoft Office 365, which is originally designed to protect users from malware and phishing attacks. Dubbed Safe Links, the feature has been included in Office 3...