China’s Mustang Panda APT — also tracked as TA416, Bronze President, or Stately Taurus — is best known for adaptable tradecraft and a steady focus on geopolitical intelligence collection. In its most recent campaign, researchers tied to Acronis observed the group shifting some of that attention toward India’s financial sector. The attacks are notable less for technical sophistication than for
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How Attackers Abuse Microsoft Teams and Quick Assist: Inside the Helpdesk Impersonation Playbook
A new wave of attacks is quietly abusing everyday collaboration tools to bypass user suspicion and gain hands-on control of corporate endpoints. Threat actors are impersonating internal IT helpdesk staff inside Microsoft Teams, convincing employees to grant remote access via Quick Assist, and then using that live access to deploy stealthy persistence mechanisms and move laterally through enterprise networks. Because