Friday, November 6, 2026

Microsoft

Hackers Abuse Microsoft Teams to Pose as IT Support and Steal Employee Passwords

Threat actors are increasingly abusing Microsoft Teams' external chat capabilities to impersonate corporate IT help desks. They trick employees into installing malware, granting remote...

Microsoft Offers $60,000 Bounty for Critical Cross-Tenant Vulnerabilities

Microsoft has expanded its incentives for security researchers focusing on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, offering rewards ranging from $1,250 to $60,000 for qualifying...

Hackers Pose as IT Support to Hijack Microsoft 365 Accounts With Fake Passkey Alerts

Threat actors are impersonating corporate IT helpdesk staff in an active social-engineering campaign that hijacks Microsoft 365 identities, establishes MFA persistence, and systematically collects...

Windows BitLocker Flaw Lets Attackers Execute Code on Vulnerable Systems

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-69449, an Important-severity vulnerability in Windows BitLocker. This issue is classified as a heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122) and may allow remote code...

Hackers Impersonate IT Support on Microsoft Teams to Take Control of Employee PCs

A human-operated intrusion campaign in which attackers abuse Microsoft Teams external collaboration to impersonate internal IT or helpdesk staff, persuade employees to grant remote...

Hackers Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions to Hijack Accounts Even After MFA

Cybercriminals are using a rebranded Evilginx2 phishing-as-a-service platform dubbed BigBear 2.0 to intercept authenticated Microsoft 365 sessions, allowing them to take over accounts even...

Switzerland Builds Open-Source Workplace Platform to Operate Alongside Microsoft 365

Switzerland’s Federal Chancellery is advancing a sovereign digital workplace initiative following a feasibility study that demonstrated how open-source collaboration and office software can effectively...

Microsoft Teams Adds QR Code Protection to Block Phishing and Fraud

Microsoft is developing a new security feature for Teams messaging that will obscure QR codes sent by external users. This measure aims to help...