Trend Micro: Vishing via Microsoft Teams Facilitates DarkGate Malware Intrusion
Trend Micro provides a case study in which the attacker used social engineering via a Microsoft Teams call to impersonate a user's client and gain remote access to their system. The attacker failed to install a Microsoft Remote Support application but successfully instructed the victim to download AnyDesk 😂. DarkGate malware was deployed to their machine and persistence was created, but the attack was stopped. Trend Micro is sharing infection chain and post-infection actions for security awareness. Indicators of compromise provided.