On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it has discovered a series of extremely specific social engineering operations carried out by a Russian nation-state threat actor utilising phishing lures for credential theft sent as Microsoft Teams chats.
The tech behemoth blamed the attacks on Midnight Blizzard, formerly known as Nobelium, a group it tracks. APT29, BlueBravo, Cosy Bear, Iron Hemlock, and The Dukes are some more names for it.
The threat actor “in this latest activity, the threat actor uses previously compromised Microsoft 365 tenants owned by small businesses to create new domains that appear as technical support entities,” according to the company read more Microsoft Exposes Russian Hackers’ Sneaky Phishing Tactics via Microsoft Teams Chats.
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