April 29, 2024, 11:27 a.m. | Mary

AboutDFIR – The Definitive Compendium Project aboutdfir.com

Researchers Uncover Windows Flaws Granting Hackers Rootkit-Like Powers 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 […]


The post InfoSec News Nuggets 4/29/2024 appeared first on AboutDFIR - The Definitive Compendium Project.

aboutdfir argument capabilities conceal conversion dhs dos exploited files flaws found function hackers infosec infosec news infosec news nuggets news nuggets nuggets path process processes research researchers rootkit threat threat actors uncover windows

Information Security Engineers

@ D. E. Shaw Research | New York City

Technology Security Analyst

@ Halton Region | Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

@ Valley Water | San Jose, CA

Senior SecOps Security Architect

@ SGS | Madrid, Spain

Auditeur(trice) de configuration et d’architecture - Cybersécurité - Toulouse

@ Sopra Steria | Colomiers, France

Cybersecurity - staż SantanderTech

@ Santander | Wrocław