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Phreaking 2.0: Abusing Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

Moritz Abrell

Moritz Abrell demonstrates modern VoIP phreaking against Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, exploiting SIP and Session Border Controller (SBC) misconfigurations.

Summary

The Integration of PSTN and Enterprise Cloud Communications

Microsoft Teams Direct Routing allows organizations to connect their on-premises telephony infrastructure and Session Border Controllers (SBCs) to Teams cloud.

Auditing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Handshakes

Moritz Abrell analyzes the SIP signaling and TLS mutual authentication used between enterprise SBCs and Microsoft cloud servers.

Exploiting Routing Misconfigurations for Toll Fraud and Interception

Abrell demonstrates spoofing caller IDs, bypassing trunk authorization rules, making unmetered international calls, and intercepting enterprise voice channels.

Hardening Enterprise SIP and Teams Telephony

The author provides VoIP administrators with SBC hardening checklists, strict TLS certificate validation rules, and SIP firewall configurations.

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