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13 stories taggedvishing.
Criminals Pose as IT Support Inside Microsoft Teams to Take Over Company Networks
A hacking campaign called Spring Ring tricked more than 150 employees at ten-plus companies into handing over remote control of their computers, all through a fake Teams call from a fake help desk.
ShinyHunters phoned a ReliaQuest employee, and one of them fell for it
The security firm says a vishing call led to a view-only peek at its Okta dashboard, but device-trust rules stopped anything worse.
Apollo Global Hit by Social Engineering Attack That Exposed Names and Social Security Numbers
A phone-based scam tricked Apollo Global Management's IT support staff into handing over access. Names, contact details, and Social Security numbers may have been stolen.
Ukrainian police shut down 94 scam call centres, seize $2 million in cash
A joint operation with German investigators dismantled fake investment platforms and bank-impersonation scams targeting victims across the EU.
Hedge Fund Vishing Attacks Traced to UNC6671, the Group Behind the BlackFile Brand
Google's threat researchers say one core crew is running help-desk phone scams that have hit Point72, Citadel, Two Sigma and Millennium, then stealing data straight from their cloud accounts.
Brinks Home Confirms Breach as ShinyHunters Threatens to Leak 4.9 Million Salesforce Records
The residential security company says its alarm systems were not affected, but the extortion group claims to hold customer contacts, employee data and millions of support chat logs.
Fake IT support calls on Microsoft Teams are ending in ransomware within a day
A gang tracked as STAC4749 is phoning staff on Teams, pretending to be helpdesk, and locking company files with Chaos ransomware in under 17 hours.
ShinyHunters Are Phoning Hospital Help Desks: Health-ISAC Sounds the Alarm
A wave of voice-phishing calls is tricking healthcare staff into handing over single sign-on access, and the data theft is following fast.
Dutch Police Say Local Hackers Helped Pull Off the Odido Breach That Exposed 6.2 Million Customers
A phone call to customer service, a fake IT worker, and a phishing page: how criminals allegedly walked out with data on nearly every Odido subscriber.
Criminals Are Calling Your Staff and Stealing Microsoft 365 Logins in Real Time
A hacking group is phoning employees, sending them to fake Microsoft Entra ID login pages, and quietly registering their own passkeys before anyone notices. Okta has the details.
Helix: the new extortion crew phoning staff to raid SharePoint files
Researchers at ReliaQuest say the group impersonates managers on the phone, tricks staff into a login trap, then pulls company documents from Microsoft SharePoint.
Fake IT Helpdesk Calls on Microsoft Teams Are Planting EtherRAT on Company PCs
Attackers pose as internal support staff over Teams voice calls, then walk employees through installing remote-access tools that drop a Node.js trojan.
UNC3753 Hit U.S. Professional Services Firms With Vishing and Walk-In Intrusions
Dozens of legal and financial firms were hit between January and May 2026 in a data-theft extortion campaign that blended phone-based social engineering with physical office visits.