Assailants Utilize Microsoft Teams and AnyDesk to Disseminate DarkGate Malware

Utilizing a recent social manipulation strategy, malevolent actors have employed Microsoft Teams to enable the spread of the infamous DarkGate malware.

Utilizing a recent social manipulation strategy, malevolent actors have employed Microsoft Teams to enable the spread of the infamous DarkGate malware.
According to Trend Micro investigators Catherine Loveria, Jovit Samaniego, and Gabriel Nicoleta, “By means of social manipulation in a Microsoft Teams call, an attacker assumed the guise of a user’s client to obtain remote entry into their system.”
“The assailant was unsuccessful in executing a

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