Digital Warfare Podcast Daily Brief #25 March 16, 2026

The Digital Warfare Podcast · Mar 16, 2026 · 4m

Summary

In this episode of the Digital Warfare Daily Brief, we examine a social engineering campaign that abuses Microsoft Teams and Windows Quick Assist to deploy A0Backdoor malware. Attackers impersonate internal IT support, leverage trusted collaboration tools for initial access, and use stealth techniques such as DLL sideloading and DNS-based command and control to maintain persistence.

This discussion focuses on trusted application abuse, control plane risk, and the evolving intersection of human trust and legitimate enterprise tooling in modern attack chains.

Takeaways

• Attackers are…