Microsoft says Russia-linked hackers behind phishing attacks
SAN FRANSICO: A Russian government- linked hacking group took aim at dozens of global organizations with a campaign to steal login credentials by engaging users in Microsoft Teams chats pretending to be from technical support, Microsoft researchers said on Wednesday. These "highly targeted" social engineering attack s have affected "fewer than 40 unique global organizations" since late May, Microsoft researchers said in a blog, adding that the company was investigating. The Russian embassy in Washington didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The hackers set up domains and accounts that looked like technical support and tried to engage Teams users in chats and get them to approve multifactor authentication (MFA) prompts, the researchers said. "Microsoft has mitigated the actor from using the domains and continues to investigate this activity and work to remediate the impact of the attack ," they added. Teams is Microsoft's...