Financially motivated cybercriminals abuse the Windows Quick Assist feature in social engineering attacks to deploy Black Basta ransomware payloads on victims' networks. Microsoft has been ...

Microsoft Quick Assist: I’ll bet you don’t know this tool’s built right into Windows 10 and 11. It makes it easy to share your screen with someone remotely, aka no installations needed (love that!).

Security researchers have detected Storm-1811, a financially motivated cybercriminal group, exploiting Quick Assist, a client management tool, in social engineering attacks. According to a technical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. The Black Basta ransomware group has begun targeting internal ...

Following a recently documented Black Basta ransomware vishing campaign, Microsoft Threat Intelligence acknowledged May 15 that a financially motivated threat actor tracked as Storm-1811 since ...

Cybercriminals have found a new vector for ransomware attacks by abusing the Windows Quick Assist feature. These financially motivated attackers, known as Storm-1811, use social engineering tactics to ...

Ransomware gangs are increasingly adopting email bombing followed by posing as tech support in Microsoft Teams calls to trick employees into allowing remote control and install malware that provides ...