CVE-2020-17091: Improper Control of Generation of Code

Microsoft Teams Remote Code Execution Vulnerability...

Microsoft Teams Users Under Attack in 'FakeUpdates' Malware Campaign

Attackers are using ads for fake Microsoft Teams updates to deploy backdoors, which use Cobalt Strike to infect companies’ networks with malware. Microsoft is warning its customers about the so-called “FakeUpdates” campaigns in a non-public security advisory, according to a report in Bleeping...

PT-2020-4869 · Microsoft · Teams

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Teams affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to incorrect code generation management in Microsoft Teams. It allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Recommendations: At the moment, there is no...

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving

Organizations face an increasing volume of data generated daily and ever-evolving regulations around how that data is managed. To help navigate this complex information landscape, we are focused on delivering integrated, intelligent, and user-centric solutions. Over the past few years, we...

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving

Organizations face an increasing volume of data generated daily and ever-evolving regulations around how that data is managed. To help navigate this complex information landscape, we are focused on delivering integrated, intelligent, and user-centric solutions. Over the past few years, we...

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and there is still a lot to do

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM. And there is still a lot to do! For the last 17 years, the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM campaign, driven by the Department of Homeland Security, has raised awareness about the importance of cyber security across the Nation...

Microsoft Teams Phishing Attack Targets Office 365 Users

Researchers are warning of a phishing campaign that pretends to be an automated message from Microsoft Teams. In reality, the attack aims to steal Office 365 recipients’ login credentials. Teams is Microsoft’s popular collaboration tool, which has particularly risen in popularity among remote...

Microsoft Teams Patch Bypass Allows RCE

COVID-19 has spurred the use of videoconferencing for businesses worldwide – and this expanded threat surface has lured attackers like moths to a flame. Adding insult to injury, researchers have recently discovered a workaround for a previous patch issued for Microsoft Teams, that would allow a...

WebCam Redirection - Mac OSX - Microsoft Teams

Mac OSX devices such as MacBook Pros with imbued webcams utilizing Microsoft Teams...

Microsoft Teams User Hijacking Vulnerability

Microsoft Teams is a popular collaborative interaction application from Microsoft with features such as work exchange, video conferencing, file storage, and integrated office, and one of its main strengths is that it offers integration with corporate Office 365 subscriptions and the ability to fo...

News Wrap: Microsoft Sway Phish, Malicious GIF and Spyware Attacks

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch talk about the biggest news stories of the week ended May 1, including: A “PhantomLance” espionage campaign discovered targeting specific Android victims, mainly in Southeast Asia — which could be the work of the OceanLotus APT...

Microsoft Teams Impersonation Attacks Flood Inboxes

A convincing cyberattack that impersonates notifications from Microsoft Teams in order to steal the Office 365 credentials of employees is making the rounds, according to researchers. Two separate attacks have targeted as many as 50,000 different Teams users, according to findings from Abnormal...

Vulnerability allowed hijacking of Microsoft Teams account with a GIF

By Deeba Ahmed Forget Zoom for a second it is Microsoft Teams service that was exposed to account take over vulnerability with just a GIF file. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vulnerability allowed hijacking of Microsoft Teams account with a GIF...

Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack

Microsoft has fixed a subdomain takeover vulnerability in its collaboration platform Microsoft Teams that could have allowed an inside attacker to weaponize a single GIF image and use it to pilfer data from targeted systems and take over all of an organization’s Teams accounts. The attack simply...

NFL Tackles Cybersecurity Concerns Ahead of 2020 Draft Day

The NFL draft is slated to start Thursday, and thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be the first virtual version of the event ever presented. This raises a few cybersecurity concerns, according to researchers and the teams themselves — but the NFL is planning on knocking the security ball...

Protecting your data and maintaining compliance in a remote work environment

In this difficult time, remote work is becoming the new normal for many companies around the world. Employees are using tools like Microsoft Teams to collaborate, chat, and connect in new ways to try to keep their businesses moving forward amidst the challenging global health crisis. I sincerely...

Beyond Zoom: How Safe Are Slack and Other Collaboration Apps?

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, remote-collaboration platforms – now fixtures in many workers’ “new normal” – are facing more scrutiny. Popular video-conferencing app Zoom may currently be in the cybersecurity hot seat, but other collaboration tools, such as Slack, Trello, WebEx...

FBI Releases Guidance on Defending Against VTC Hijacking and Zoom-bombing

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on defending against video-teleconferencing VTC hijacking referred to as “Zoom-bombing” when attacks are to the Zoom VTC platform. Many organizations and individuals are increasingly dependent on VTC platforms, such as Zoom and...

Exclusion of Citrix embedded browser from the Citrix Workspace app 1912 LTSR for Windows

The Citrix Workspace app Long Term Service Release LTSR is released on a less frequent cadence with an extended lifecycle than the Workspace app Current Releases CR, offering predictability and less changes to the product. The Citrix Workspace app LTSR offers Cumulative Updates CU that contain...

Work remotely, stay secure—guidance for CISOs

With many employees suddenly working from home, there are things an organization and employees can do to help remain productive without increasing cybersecurity risk. While employees in this new remote work situation will be thinking about how to stay in touch with colleagues and coworkers using...