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GIFs in Microsoft Teams not just annoying, actively dangerous

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Almost every workplace chat has that one person who considers themselves a bit of a GIF lord. If you're lucky, your workplace may actually have one. Someone who nails the perfect response GIF eve
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Almost every workplace chat has that one person who considers themselves a bit of a GIF lord. If you’re lucky, your workplace may actually have one. Someone who nails the perfect response GIF every time, brightening your day and the days of all others in the channel. More likely you have someone who replies to everything with weird unpleasant GIFs and considers it their life’s crusade to police the pronunciation of the format.
Well regardless of legendary status, it’s time to cast a wary glare over those GIF happy coworkers. Bleeping Computer (opens in new tab) tells of an exploit in Microsoft Teams that uses GIFs to potentially install malicious files, perform commands, and even extract data via these fun moving images. Yeah that random and completely out of place reaction GIF Blimothy posted last week doesn’t seem so innocuous now, does it.

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