{"id":428,"date":"2025-09-25T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/?p=428"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:18:54","slug":"beware-of-phone-calls-even-on-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Beware of phone calls &#8211; even on Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleague,<\/p>\n<p>we are observing an escalation in vishing attacks, which use fraudulent phone calls or voice messages, sometimes using AI that can mimic the voices of real people the victim knows.<\/p>\n<p>In the most sophisticated attacks, criminals gather information about victims and their contacts from online sources (official websites, directories, social networks\u2026) or through previous attacks (such as <a dir=\"auto\" title=\"https:\/\/engage.eng.it\/en\/internal-communications\/alert-risk-of-social-engineering-attacks-due-to-salesloft-data-breach\" href=\"https:\/\/engage.eng.it\/en\/internal-communications\/alert-risk-of-social-engineering-attacks-due-to-salesloft-data-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(38, 139, 206)\" data-outlook-id=\"120b213e-4781-429d-86df-b65870721529\">the one suffered by Saleloft Drift<\/a>), and contact them in a convincing manner, pushing them to disclose information or perform actions without following company procedures.<\/p>\n<p>In other cases, simpler large-scale attacksare attempted by contacting randomly generated phone numbers, presenting a common issue and requesting information or payments to resolve it (e.g. a blocked or pending shipment, a payment to be made, a password to be updated, an expiring account, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>You may receive fraudulent calls on landlines, mobile phones, and even on Microsoft Teams, at the work phone number visible in the \u201cCalls\u201d menu.<\/p>\n<p>Please pay close attention to the following warning signs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you receive a call (even on Teams) from an unknown number<\/li>\n<li>the caller seems familiar but responds slowly or uncertainly<\/li>\n<li>the caller asks for information about you or your work<\/li>\n<li>you are asked to take urgent action with serious consequences if you do not comply<\/li>\n<li>you are asked for a code received via email, SMS or an app.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please remember these recommendations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not share personal or company information unless you are certain of the caller\u2019s identity. If in doubt, contact the person through a separate channel.<\/li>\n<li>Report suspicious attempts of phone contact related to work by writing to <a dir=\"auto\" title=\"mailto:security@eng.it\" href=\"mailto:security@eng.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(38, 139, 206)\" data-outlook-id=\"50af10a9-3815-4510-ae0f-78453a78bb71\">security@eng.it<\/a> and <a dir=\"auto\" title=\"mailto:csirt@cybertech.eu\" href=\"mailto:csirt@cybertech.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(38, 139, 206)\" data-outlook-id=\"e87ee9ae-1dd6-4a34-aabc-358d13a96b4b\">csirt@cybertech.eu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid handling unexpected calls if you are busy or on the move, when you cannot focus on the call.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You are the #FirstLineofDefence &#8211; in many cases, your attention is necessary and sufficient to neutralise a cyber attack!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards<br \/>\nGroup Information Security Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleague, we are observing an escalation in vishing attacks, which use fraudulent phone calls<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seguranca"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/prevent-vishing-1200x630-cropped.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boasvindas.engdb.com.br\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}