InfoSec News Nuggets 4/29/2024

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 file or folder exists is converted to an NT path," SafeBreach security researcher Or Yair said in an analysis, which was presented at the…
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