Microsoft SolarWinds analysis: Attackers hid inside Windows systems by wearing the skins of legit processes

The SolarWinds hackers triggered one of their Cobalt Strike implants in the firm’s network through a cunning VBScript that was activated by a routine system process, Microsoft has said. Microsoft’s deep dive, published yesterday following SolarWinds’ own take on the malware, repeated earlier findings that the hackers went to unusual lengths to disguise their intrusion and avoid detection.

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