Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) are more vulnerable to rogue DLL attacks than people who use rival browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox or Google’s Chrome, a security researcher said today.
A vulnerability in the free version of Bitdefender Antivirus could be exploited by an attacker to get SYSTEM-level permissions, reserved for the most privileged account on a Windows machine. This year ...
Less than 24 hours after Microsoft said it couldn't patch Windows to fix a systemic problem, attack code appeared Tuesday to exploit the company's software. Also on Tuesday, a security firm that's ...
Phishing emails distributing the QBot malware are using a DLL hijacking flaw in the Windows 10 Control Panel to infect computers, likely as an attempt to evade detection by security software. DLL ...
As the macOS desktop user base continues to grow year over year, and Windows remains a mainstay, adversaries are growing more adept in their strategies to become more versatile cross-platform. As ...
Dynamic-link library (DLL) side-loading occurs when Windows Side-by-Side (WinSxS) manifests are not explicit about the characteristics of DLLs being loaded by a program. In layman’s terms, DLL ...
The appearance Monday of exploit code for the DLL loading issue that reportedly affects hundreds of Windows applications means hackers will probably start hammering on PCs shortly, security experts ...
Security researchers have spotted a new Chinese espionage campaign targeting Asian gambling companies, which they suspect is the work of the Bronze Starlight group. SentinelLabs revealed that the ...
A prolific Chinese cyberespionage group known in the security industry as APT41 was recently seen deploying a new backdoor program called UNAPIMON that uses a sophisticated technique to prevent its ...