Microsoft Adds Report Meeting Feature to Teams to Combat AI Identity Impersonation and Deepfakes

Microsoft has confirmed that it will launch a new "Report a Concern" feature for Microsoft Teams in August 2026, allowing participants to directly report phishing, identity theft, fraud, social engineering, and other suspicious activities during meetings. This will enable enterprise security teams to intervene quickly and investigate, helping to address the growing risks of AI-driven cyber fraud.

Microsoft stated that with the widespread adoption of generative AI technology, the barriers for attackers to use AI to collect corporate public information, generate deepfakes of participants, clone voices, or replicate facial features continue to decrease. Microsoft's previous research indicated that AI-driven fraud attacks have rapidly spread globally, with a large number of activities originating from China and Europe, and warned that related threats in markets such as Germany are continuously increasing.

The new feature allows users to submit security reports within Teams meetings or meeting chats. Relevant meeting metadata and limited context information will be recorded and synchronized to the Microsoft Defender portal and Teams Admin Center, enabling organizational administrators and security teams to analyze potential security incidents such as deepfakes and identity theft. Microsoft emphasized that this data is mainly provided to enterprise administrators for internal investigations and will not be automatically sent to Microsoft.

In addition to the new reporting mechanism, Microsoft also announced enhanced management of AI meeting bots. In the future, Teams will be able to identify external AI bots and display their identity and permissions to meeting organizers, helping administrators control the actions that bots can perform, preventing unauthorized AI assistants from entering meetings, thus further enhancing meeting security and privacy protection.