Ransomware Attack Abuses Legitimate Windows Tool to Evade Traditional Containment

Microsoft Defender’s new automatic device isolation capability has emerged as a decisive control against modern ransomware intrusions that abuse legitimate Windows binaries, as demonstrated in a recent incident at QNET where a multi-stage attack was stopped in just 128 seconds. The mshta.exe process reached out to attacker-controlled infrastructure, retrieved a remote second-stage payload, and began […]

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