Tag: Microsoft Quick Assist

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Fraudsters Leveraging Quick Assist Feature for Ransomware Attacks

Cybercriminals with a monetary incentive use Windows Quick Assist in social engineering schemes to infect victims’ networks with Black Basta ransomware payloads. Microsoft has been looking at this effort since at least mid-April 2024. Based on their observations, the threat group (Storm-1811) began email bombing the target after adding their…