Attackers are leveraging Microsoft Teams and similar collaboration platforms to conduct social engineering campaigns, often impersonating IT personnel to trick users into compromising credentials or systems. Organizations relying on Teams for internal communications face increased risk from these targeted attacks, which exploit user familiarity with the platform.

Why it matters in Western Canada: Western Canadian organizations—particularly post-secondary institutions, government agencies, healthcare systems, and financial institutions—heavily depend on Microsoft Teams for daily operations, making them prime targets for Teams-based social engineering and credential harvesting attacks.

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