There’s finally a fix to this serious Microsoft Teams problem
Office 365 users can soon report Microsoft Teams phishing messages
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The team behindMicrosoft Teamshas moved to address one of the most pressing security issues affecting the service in a new update.
Users of thevideo conferencingplatform will soon be able to report suspiciousMicrosoftTeams messages as a security threat using Office 365’s built-in safety protections.
The service will be available to Office 365 users via its Microsoft Defender service, and will work much the same way as the current process for reporting suspect emails.
Microsoft Teams phishing
In itsentryon the officialMicrosoft 365roadmap, the company notes that the new tool will help an organization “protect itself from attacks via Microsoft Teams”.
Given the similarities to existing systems, this should be as simple as clicking on a Defender pop-up message alerting to possible threats, which should block the malicious message immediately.
The feature is still listed as in development for now, with a scheduled general availability launch set for January 2023. When released, the company says it will be available to all web and desktop users across the world using Teams and Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
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The news is the latest in a series of upgrades to Microsoft Teams in order to help protect users from possible security threats.
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Back in July 2021, the platform gained the ability toautomatically block phishing attemptsthanks to an expansion of Defender for Office 365 Safe Links. This tool automatically scans URLs sent in Microsoft Teams to determine if they direct to a malicious destination.
Microsoft said at the time that every month its detection systems discover close to two million distinct URL-based payloads used by cybercriminals to conduct credential phishing campaigns.
Microsoft Teams has long been an attractive target for hackers, offering a straightforward route into a business via its employees. A report in February 2022 found attackers are using Teams chats and channels tospread malicious executable(.exe) files throughout organizations, which once activated can deliver malicious files to any member of the organization, either via one-on-one chats or group channels.
Another recent Microsoft 365 phishing campaign looked toimpersonate several departments of the United States government, including the Department of Labor and the Department of Transport.
The emails, targeted at government contractors, claim to request bids for government projects but lead victims to credential phishing pages instead.
Mike Moore is Deputy Editor at TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a B2B and B2C tech journalist for nearly a decade, including at one of the UK’s leading national newspapers and fellow Future title ITProPortal, and when he’s not keeping track of all the latest enterprise and workplace trends, can most likely be found watching, following or taking part in some kind of sport.
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