Microsoft wants Teams to be a part of your defense against phishing scams

Phishing scams, which see scammers trying to trick you into clicking links to fake websites or downloading corrupted files have become increasingly prominent and sophisticated in recent years. Furthermore, scammers know that if they target you at work rather than at home, they can potentially tap into a much higher potential reward pool, which mean that businesses and workplaces are now taking phishing scam protection more seriously than ever. Microsoft is looking to bolster your jobs’ phishing scam defenses and wants you to help out.

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To help you become a bigger part of those defenses, Microsoft is adding an update to Microsoft Teams that will make it easier for you to report phishing scams while at work. An entry on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap explains that the software giant is working on an update that will allow users to report suspicious messages they receive on Teams.

The update will bring the reporting capabilities for Microsoft Teams messages as users already have with email, which should give businesses the chance to close down potential scams from reaching a wider audience among their workforces.

According to the entry, the updated Microsoft Teams feature should be ready for a general rollout in January 2023 and will be released worldwide to all Microsoft 365 subscribers and users via the Microsoft Defender security program. However, there is already a preview version of the new reporting feature already available.

In other Microsoft news, the company has been working on updates for Windows 11 that will make the operating system much more difficult to break into using brute force attacks.