Security News > 2024 > April > Researchers Uncover Windows Flaws Granting Hackers Rootkit-Like Powers
2024-04-22 09:22
New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes. "When a user executes a function that has a path argument in Windows, the DOS path at which the file or folder exists is converted to an NT path," SafeBreach security researcher Or Yair said&
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