"DarkGate Operator Uses Skype, Teams Messages to Distribute Malware"

A threat actor has been compromising Skype and Microsoft Teams accounts to distribute DarkGate, a loader associated with information theft, keylogging, cryptocurrency mining, and Black Basta ransomware. According to Trend Micro researchers, 41 percent of the campaign targets are organizations in the Americas. Trend Micro noted that its researchers had observed the developer of DarkGate advertising the malware on underground forums and renting it out to affiliated threat actors as Malware-as-a-Service. This article continues to discuss the compromise of Skype and Microsoft Teams accounts to distribute DarkGate.

Dark Reading reports "DarkGate Operator Uses Skype, Teams Messages to Distribute Malware"

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