SAN FRANCISCO — A Russian government-linked hacking group took aim at dozens of global organisations 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 (Aug 2).
These"highly targeted" social engineering attacks have affected"fewer than 40 unique global organisations" since late May, Microsoft researchers said in a blog, adding that the company was investigating.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 prompts, the researchers said.
Teams is Microsoft's proprietary business communication platform, with more than 280 million active users, according to the company's January financial statement. The hacking group behind this activity, known in the industry as Midnight Blizzard or APT29, is based in Russia and the UK and US governments have linked it to the country's foreign intelligence service, the researchers said.
"This latest attack, combined with past activity, further demonstrates Midnight Blizzard’s ongoing execution of their objectives using both new and common techniques," the researchers wrote.
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