Microsoft Teams now automatically blocks phishing attempts

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Microsoft has extended Defender for Office 365 Safe Links protection to Microsoft Teams to safeguard users from malicious URL-based phishing attacks.

Safe Links is a feature in Defender for Office 365 (previously known as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection) that provides URL scanning and "time-of-click verification" of URLs and links in email messages, groups, and other locations.

Using Safe Links can help protect enterprise organizations from malicious links sent by threat actors behind phishing attempts and other attacks.

This added protection couldn't have come at a better time, seeing that, based on Microsoft's stats, the Microsoft Teams userbase has exploded over the last 18 months since the start of the pandemic and the quick switch to remote work.
 

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