Although Microsoft 365 adoption has helped organizations increase productivity, these platforms are chock-full of confidential data, and have inevitably become a major target for cybercriminals.Of all the messages sent to Microsoft 365 inboxes in a single month, on average, about 55 billion are spam or bulk emails, and 20 million contain some form of malware.
- A popular approach among scammers is to send phishing emails that contain malicious links or attachments
- After clicking these links, victims are redirected to fake pages that request their credentials or personal details, giving scammers access to the victims’ emails, contacts, files, folders, and more.
- Cybercriminals can then use the compromised email accounts to hunt for personally identifiable information (PII) in the mailbox, send unauthorized emails to partners or vendors seeking confidential data, and a lot more.
