{"id":243033,"date":"2026-08-22T01:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/new-synkloader-malware-pushed-in-microsoft-teams-phishing-campaign"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:15:21","slug":"new-synkloader-malware-pushed-in-microsoft-teams-phishing-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/new-synkloader-malware-pushed-in-microsoft-teams-phishing-campaign","title":{"rendered":"New SynkLoader malware pushed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-synkloader-malware-pushed-in-microsoft-teams-phishing-campaign.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A previously unknown malware family dubbed SynkLoader is being distributed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaigns to steal credentials via a fake lock screen.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker impersonates the target company\u2019s IT help desk, a tactic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/microsoft-teams-increasingly-abused-in-helpdesk-impersonation-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft highlighted<\/a> earlier this year as increasingly common in multi-stage attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Expel\u2019s security researcher Marcus Hutchins explains that the attacks direct the victim to install a fake \u201cPowerShell Cleaner\u201d executable (.MSI) hosted in Microsoft Azure, making the download appear trustworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previously unknown malware family dubbed SynkLoader is being distributed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaigns to steal credentials via a fake lock screen. The attacker impersonates the target company\u2019s IT help desk, a tactic Microsoft highlighted earlier this year as increasingly common in multi-stage attacks. Expel\u2019s security researcher Marcus Hutchins explains that the attacks direct [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}