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Security researchers from antivirus vendor ESET discovered a piece of cyberespionage malware targeting Tibetan activists that uses unusual techniques to evade detection and achieve persistency on infected systems. The malware, which was dubbed Win32/Syndicasec.A, bypasses the UAC (User Account Control) mechanism in Windows to run arbitrary commands with elevated privileges without prompting users for confirmation. It exploits a design flaw in the Windows UAC whitelist functionality that was documents back in 2009 by a developer named Leo Davidson. In fact, the malware uses Davidson’s proof-of-concept code with almost no modifications, said Alexis Dorais-Joncas, Security Intelligence Team Lead at ESET, Thursday in a blog post. This technique is used to execute a second malicious component that registers a piece of Javascript code in the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) subsystem. WMI is a default Windows service that can execute scripts written by system administrators to automate administrative tasks. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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