About this tag
The email to chat attacks tag covers the shift of enterprise phishing from traditional inboxes into collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams. Tagged coverage examines how attackers exploit trusted chat environments to impersonate IT helpdesks, target employees, steal credentials, and evade email-focused defenses. It also follows Microsoft’s warnings about cross-tenant Teams abuse and the growing effort by security vendors to monitor and remediate suspicious external chats. This page is useful for readers tracking how familiar workplace workflows are being used in new social-engineering campaigns, along with the security controls organizations are adopting to protect collaboration tools.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    KnowBe4 Defend Extends to Microsoft Teams Chats for Phishing Remediation

    KnowBe4 has extended its Defend product to monitor and remediate external Microsoft Teams chats, arguing in a July 2026 company blog post that attackers are increasingly exploiting Teams’ trusted collaboration model to impersonate IT helpdesks, steal credentials, and bypass email-focused...