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Quasar: Compromising Electron Apps

7 minute read Published: 2022-09-06

This is the story of how I used Microsoft Teams's own design against itself.

We all kinda know that Electron apps are dangerous—at least to our RAM, am I right??

But seriously, these cross-platform apps, because of how they get installed, present a tasty spot for attackers to take up residence and even inject malicious code into trusted applications, with the poor user being none the wiser.

Here's how it works.