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Huntress details four ways attackers who already hold administrator rights add Microsoft Defender exclusions to keep malicious files out of every scan. A registry value can also hide those exclusions from any admin who checks for them.
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Huntress traced at least two of more than 40 ClickFix malware incidents to fake custom GPTs on OpenAI's chatgpt.com. On that route every hop before the PowerShell command sat on a Google or OpenAI address, so staff taught to trust familiar domains would click through each one.
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One developer's secrets scanner printed PASS before every release for two months while matching zero files, according to a dev.to post. The fix gives a scan of nothing its own failing exit code, so a broken check stops looking clean.
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Microsoft has removed the legacy WMIC binary rather than deprecating it again. WMI itself stays, so admin scripts and detection content keyed to wmic.exe both need rework this cycle.
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Check Point Research says exposed directories revealed the logs, source code and management tooling behind StopAndProtect, a campaign it links to more than 5,000 infected machines.
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Microsoft's TerminalFix writeup shows the same fake CAPTCHA lure now feeding multi-line PowerShell into Windows Terminal, where it sideloads a signed binary, pulls payloads out of PNG files and leaves a reverse tunnel behind.
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third-party.com is an ordinary registered domain that developer documentation has used as a stand-in for years. It currently answers with a fake Cloudflare check that tells Windows users to paste a PowerShell command into the Run box.
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Securonix pulled four scheduled tasks and a Startup folder copy out of one infected machine, and the two PowerShell modules restart each other. Delete the desktop script and the backdoor keeps collecting documents.
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Extending a PowerShell endpoint suite with roles, sessions and think time exposed authentication, contract, cleanup and rate-limit defects first. The nine journey sessions still share three accounts, one per role.
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Blackpoint's SOC worked an incident where a fake captcha on the victim company's own WordPress site ran a hidden PowerShell downloader, and the campaign's later stage sits in a blockchain contract no provider can pull.
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Zscaler ThreatLabz says the Pakistan-aligned group worked government and defense targets in India and Afghanistan with four undocumented tools, one of them a Rust backdoor that takes its orders from files in a private repo.
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SQS standard queues and Lambda event source mappings both deliver at least once, and that guarantee is about the envelope. A lab in us-east-1 sent the same 150-real order four times and logged four charges.
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A fresh terminal resolves ffmpeg while the IDE on the same machine says the tool is missing. The difference is the environment block each process got when it was created, and Windows sends no update to a process already running.
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A quantised 27B on one 16GB GPU audited a home Splunk and Sysmon install with nothing leaving the host. Its first repair attempt ran the 128K context window dry. A halt rule in the system prompt got it under control.
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A dev.to writeup pins silent copy/paste failures in Excel 2016 through 2024 on KB5002914, and says MSI machines can drop the patch while volume Click-to-Run installs have to be moved back a whole build.
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Microsoft's guidance on illicit consent grants says password resets and MFA do not touch the access, and it sends admins to the Purview audit log, where the entry can take up to 24 hours to appear.
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Seven Claude Code subagents produced 382 commits, 24 board meetings and 16 articles in 21 days, and no revenue. The reusable part of the writeup is the runner that treated exit code 0 as proof the work happened.
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A parity script, an xUnit mirror of it, two Claude Code hooks and a skill file all went in before any hardcoded string moved, and a JSON baseline of per-file literal counts is what let a half-finished extraction still pass.
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A Windows box running about thirty unattended jobs reported success through three months of failures, because each exit code had to survive a VBScript launcher and a .cmd shim before the scheduler ever saw it.
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Compromised WordPress and PrestaShop pages fetch their next stage with a JSON-RPC eth_call to BNB Smart Chain Testnet, so the artefact sitting on the site is a request, not a file you can quarantine.
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