The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

cmitsakis 36 points 8 comments April 03, 2026
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jruohonen

"the meeting said something on my system was out of date. i installed the missing item as i presumed it was something to do with teams, and this was the RAT." Oh dear.

PufPufPuf

I wonder if I would have been saved by my absolute disdain for installing anything Microsoft Teams-related on my computer. The web version works fine , thanks. Up to usual Microsoft Teams standards

skrtskrt

As a general rule I install none of these web conferencing things on my machine. Either the browser version works fine, as Google Meet, Zoom, Teams and even WebEx all do, or this is not a meeting I need to be on.

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