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New Windows Bind Link techniques let attackers evade EDR, security controls
Attackers who already have administrator privileges on a Windows machine have newer ways to slip past endpoint security without exploiting a vulnerable driver or modifying trusted binaries.
Summary
Attackers who already have administrator privileges on a Windows machine have newer ways to slip past endpoint security without exploiting a vulnerable driver or modifying trusted binaries. Bitdefender researchers have warned against three techniques that abuse Windows Bind Links, a legitimate filesystem virtualization capability, to occupy security tools with clean files while malicious ones execute undetected.
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