A major security issue has been discovered in Microsoft Teams that puts thousands of accounts at risk.

Microsoft Teams is one of the most used communication tools in the world for both workgroup and educational purposes, which is why it has a huge user base. It may be one of the most used programs from Microsoft and unfortunately a serious security issue has been found.

This security issue was discovered by Vectra cybersecurity experts and colleagues at Andro4All replicated what happened. As can be seen in the report that Vectra offers, the level of danger is high and, what, the application Microsoft Teams for Windows, MacOS and Linux were victims of this leak.

What happened? As can be seen from the report, the application Microsoft would store the information in a text format, completely accessible to other people.. Storing the text in this way will allow any attacker to easily access this information.

Come on, any cybercriminal can steal passwords without having to run weird processes on the app microsoft. The truth is that this is a difficult situation for Microsoft and for users who may see their data exposed due to the simple fact of having an account with Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft is already aware of the situation, although knowing about the problem does not mean that it is solved. For now, the gap is still present And, unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. And this is where the Electron technology behind Microsoft Teams is to blame.

Electron is a technology that has been on the market for quite some time and is not one of the most secure. Microsoft Teams is based on this technology to manage the credentials of users who access the platform. Thus, any attacker will be able to access passwords and credentials without much trouble..

In addition, Microsoft does not take Vectra’s warning seriously and, in fact, having commented on the situation, the company closed the incident, as it does not consider it dangerous. If you need to use Microsoft Teams, the web version is the best because it doesn’t have the security flaws that the desktop version has..