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Craig Hale

Microsoft Teams and Zoom can be hijacked to give hackers the keys to your kingdom

Microsoft Teams on an iPhone.
  • Experts say Microsoft Teams and Zoom are perfect for hiding Ghost Calls
  • Attackers can obtain temporary TURN credentials and create a tunnel
  • Vendors must implement safeguards, because there are no vulnerabilities in sight

Researchers from Praetorian have shed the light on Ghost Calls, a post-exploitation command-and-control evasion technique which send attacker traffic through legitimate Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) servers used by the likes of Zoom and Microsoft Teams, to evade detection.

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