Fake Microsoft Teams Updates Installs Cobalt Malware on Victims Machine

The threat actors are using the Cobalt Strike to infect companies’ networks with malware. However, this kind of attack generally targets organizations in several industries, but this mainly focuses on the education sector. 

Recently, Microsoft is warning its users regarding malicious fake ads. As the threat actors are using all malicious fake ads for Microsoft Teams updates to affect and hamper the systems of the victims. 

Due to the covid-19 difficult pandemic situation, the educational systems are now depending on videoconferencing solutions, and that is making an easy path for all these threat actors to attack the organization’s network.

Microsoft has stated that these methods are not new, and threat actors have already used this kind of method to exploit the networks. That’s why the cybersecurity researchers affirmed that this kind of trick was used by the DoppelPaymer…