A fake Slack download is giving attackers a hidden desktop on your machine
Don’t have an account? Sign up > Try our antivirus with a free, full-featured 14-day trial Protect your team’s devices and data – no IT skills needed Explore award-winning endpoint security for your business A trojanized Slack download from a typosquatting website is giving attackers something most users wouldn’t even know to look for: a hidden desktop running on their machine. The installer looks legitimate and even launches a working copy of Slack. But in the background, it can create an invisible session where attackers can browse, access accounts, and interact with your system without anything appearing on your screen. To be clear, this campaign has nothing to do with Slack, the company, and we’ve let them know what we found. Slack has tens of millions of daily active users across more than 200,000 paying organisations in over 150 countries, including 77 of the Fortune 100. So a troj
Source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/04/a-fake-slack-download-is-giving-attackers-a-hidden-desktop-on-your-machine
