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Microsoft Teams gets AI phishing detector
Microsoft is adding AI-powered threat detection to Teams to spot phishing and social engineering scams in messages.
In brief
Microsoft is adding AI-powered threat detection to Teams to spot phishing and social engineering scams in messages. Microsoft Teams will roll out AI-powered phishing detection in November twenty twenty-six to identify scams and suspicious behavior without retaining customer data. Originally reported by TechRadar.
Teams gets AI threat detection
Microsoft Teams is adding AI-powered security protections to help users avoid phishing attacks and scams in messages.
How the AI spots threats
The AI analyzes conversation context to identify phishing, social engineering, impersonation attempts and deceptive intent, even without traditional malicious links or files.
“The capability analyzes conversation context to identify suspicious behavior that may not include traditional indicators such as malicious links or files.”
Extra protection in high-risk chats
The system focuses on higher-risk messaging scenarios such as external first-contact chats, with additional protection applying in certain regions or scenarios.
No admin action needed
IT admins will not need to take any action to enable the new feature when it rolls out to all Microsoft Teams users.
Data stays private
Microsoft says customer message content is not retained by the detection system for model training or other secondary uses, only for security protection.
“Customer message content is not retained by the detection system for model training or other secondary uses.”
Rolling out November twenty twenty-six
The feature is in development and scheduled to become generally available to all Microsoft Teams users worldwide in November twenty twenty-six.
In short
Microsoft Teams will roll out AI-powered phishing detection in November twenty twenty-six to identify scams and suspicious behavior without retaining customer data.
