Microsoft's workplace chat, video meeting, and collaboration app, bundled with Office 365 and increasingly integrated with Microsoft's Copilot AI features.
Microsoft will open Teams meetings to certified third-party deepfake detectors and add built-in impersonation warnings, both due in November. Deepfake coverage will depend on buying a certified outside detector.
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ServiceNow launched Flow, a Slack and Teams service desk it says deploys in one day, at no additional cost for existing AI-SKU customers on consumption terms. Futurum calls it a land-and-expand defence against AI-native rivals in SMB and mid-market accounts.
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Peter Cappelli and Y. Jasmine Wu found remote work wearing down help between colleagues in interviews with about 760 employees of a financial firm. The cost lands on newcomers with no one to call, outside the individual deliverables supervisors were told to watch.
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Ryan Roslansky, Microsoft's Office and Teams chief, is leaving after nearly 18 years, a week after the company announced its new Copilot. His teams now report to Charles Lamanna in the Copilot, Agents, and Platform organization, so Office is run from inside Microsoft's Copilot group.
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OpenAI's Dots agents, arriving in a business base of more than 35 million weekly users, must get a user's sign-off before changing a password or deleting data. Permissions are adjustable settings, so each team deploying an always-on Dot sets its own limits.
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ServiceNow says a small team with a founder-like mandate built Flow, its AI service desk for Slack and Teams, in three months. For IT teams whose staff already work in chat, the question is whether a desk with no setup project will still fit once request volume and complexity grow.
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Zscaler ThreatLabz logged 20.1% fewer ransomware payments in the year to March 2026, worth $327.8M in total, while the average payment rose 5.3% to $431,995. Leak-site listings fell just 3% over the same period, so the decline is in how many victims pay.
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OpenAI is letting enterprise workspace admins decide whether staff get Dots, its always-on ChatGPT agents that can connect to more than 4,000 apps. Whoever turns on the beta approves software that keeps working while nobody watches, under permission rules each employee writes for their own Dot.
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OpenAI opened the plugin system behind ChatGPT's own features to outside developers at DevDay and launched a 32-partner enterprise marketplace. For teams that build internal tools, ChatGPT is now both a place their integrations can run and a product that competes with them.
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OpenAI's Dots give ChatGPT persistent agents that each run on an isolated cloud computer and keep working after the user leaves the chat. Teams now have to sort which errands can run unwatched and which must stop for a person's approval.
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OpenAI is halving the usage in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan from 30 October and adding a $500 plan with its fastest speed. Before buying Pro seats for Space, teams should check who used more than ten times the Plus allowance.
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OpenAI's new Dots give ChatGPT subscribers an always-on agent that works through more than 4,000 connected apps. Whoever runs those accounts now sets the rules for which actions a Dot takes on its own and which have to wait for a person to say yes.
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Ontinue says the Python implant takes tasking from SharePoint dead drops over Graph API, relays interactive sessions through Teams TURN, and moves all of it through the victim's own headless Edge.
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Google outbid Mercor by $2.5 million for a dead airline's Teams messages, calendars and codebase. Leaders need a data-disposition position before the wind-down, not during it.
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Disclosures doubled year over year while actually-exploited vulnerabilities rose 8%. The arithmetic retires patch-everything SLAs and leaves exploitability triage as the defensible option.
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Unit 42 reports endpoint alerts tied to collaboration tools more than quadrupled in 12 months, with 99% linked to chat phishing. Most controls still watch email and logins, not authenticated sessions.
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Expel's teardown of a loader first compiled around 28 July 2026 puts the whole delivery chain outside email, and says its module hashes change with every infection.
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Unit 42 says the crew reached more than 150 employees at ten or more companies without a single software exploit, which puts Teams federation policy and NTLM relay hardening in scope and leaves the endpoint downstream.
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According to Microsoft Threat Intelligence, every stage after the consent prompt runs on software the environment already trusts, which puts the choke point on Teams federation policy and remote-support install rights.
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The OAuth device authorization grant was built for smart TVs and printers. Kits such as EvilTokens use it to get victims to approve an attacker's sign-in on a page that really is Microsoft's, MFA included.
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