Microsoft Is Fighting Teams AI Scamming With New Report Button

Microsoft Teams is getting a new “Report a concern” option in meetings, which will give participants a way to report/flag if they feel suspicious activity inside the meeting, tied to phishing, impersonation, scams, social engineering, deepfakes, and similar.

The new option will not act as an automatic deepfake detector. Instead, it will let attendees send a security report from inside the meeting or from meeting chat, so admins or the security team can review the case afterward, as reported by Windows Latest.

The Teams app already supports reporting to some extent, like suspicious messages, and the company has been expanding that reporting model across chats, channels, calls, and meetings. The new meeting report option extends this functionality into live meetings; AI voice cloning and synthetic videos make it easier to impersonate people and harder to detect quickly; at least the reporting should be easy.

Teams will show these submissions in the admin center, and those using Microsoft Defender can also check them in the Defender portal. The report can have meeting details and some context for investigations, but Microsoft doesn’t automatically get the data. It goes to the organization’s admin and security processes instead.

Microsoft aims to have stricter control over external meeting bots. This, together with the reporting option, can be a big step for monitoring who joins meetings and how participants can flag abuse.

All in all, it is not up to the Teams app to figure out deepfakes, at least not currently. All it is doing is adding a reporting path that helps organizations investigate suspicious meetings more efficiently, but at the end of the day, it’s the participants who have to figure out if they are interacting with a real person or an AI.