Evasive Panda APT poisons DNS requests to deliver MgBot

Introduction The Evasive Panda APT group also known as Bronze Highland, Daggerfly, and StormBamboo has been active since 2012, targeting multiple industries with sophisticated, evolving tactics. Our latest research June 2025 reveals that the attackers conducted highly-targeted campaigns, which...

📄 Microsoft Windows 11 build 10.0.22631.6199 Privilege Escalation

Microsoft Windows 11 build 10.0.22631.6199 proof of concept tool that implements a notorious local privilege escalation technique on Windows. The code implements a task scheduler/DLL sideloading attack to achieve UAC bypass / privilege escalation by forcing the trusted SilentCleanup task to load...

EUVD-2021-18716

Malware in sbrugna...

EUVD-2023-28594

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

Dante Discovery < 1.2.1

The version of Dante Discovery installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 1.2.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability. mDNSResponder.exe is vulnerable to DLL Sideloading attack. Executable improperly specifies how to load the DLL, from which folder and under what conditions. In the...

Dante Discovery Process Control Vulnerability

Dante Discovery contains a process control vulnerability in mDNSResponder.exe that all allows for a DLL sideloading attack. A local attacker can leverage this vulnerability in the Dante Application Library to execute arbitrary code...

Info Stealing Campaign Uses DLL Sideloading Through Legitimate Cisco Webex’s Binaries for Initial Execution and Defense Evasion

Info Stealing Campaign Uses DLL Sideloading Through Legitimate Cisco Webex’s Binaries for Initial Execution and Defense Evasion By Ale Houspanossian · June 17, 2024 Case Summary It was a quiet Monday morning in March 2024 when the EDR researchers with our Trellix Advanced Research Center identifi...

DarkGate again but... Improved?

DarkGate again but... Improved? By Ernesto Fernández Provecho · June 3, 2024 Executive summary During 2023, DarkGate made a comeback with a version full of new features, becoming one of the most preferred Remote Access Trojans RATs by malicious actors. However, this momentum also required...

CVE-2024-34474: Incorrect Default Permissions

Clario through 2024-04-11 for Desktop has weak permissions for %PROGRAMDATA%\Clario and tries to load DLLs from there as SYSTEM...

Active Nitrogen campaign delivered via malicious ads for PuTTY, FileZilla

In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular system utilities. The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results on Googles search engine page and localized to North America. Victims are tricked into downloadi...

New CHAVECLOAK Banking Trojan Targets Brazilians via Malicious PDFs

By Deeba Ahmed The CHAVECLOAK banking Trojan employs PDFs, ZIP downloads, DLL sideloading, and deceptive pop-ups to target Brazil's unsuspecting banking users financial sector. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New CHAVECLOAK Banking Trojan Targets Brazilians via Malicious...

In-Depth Analysis of Phobos Ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Phobos ransomware, active since 2018, primarily targets small to medium-sized businesses with lower ransom demands. It uses compromised RDP connections, is distributed via a Ransomware as a Service model...

CVE-2023-4936 Synaptics-DisplayLink-privilege escalation vulnerability via a dynamic library sideloading

It is possible to sideload a compromised DLL during the installation at elevated privilege...

CVE-2023-4936 Synaptics-DisplayLink-privilege escalation vulnerability via a dynamic library sideloading

It is possible to sideload a compromised DLL during the installation at elevated privilege...

CVE-2023-4936: Improper Privilege Management

It is possible to sideload a compromised DLL during the installation at elevated privilege...

Chimera - Automated DLL Sideloading Tool With EDR Evasion Capabilities

While DLL sideloading can be used for legitimate purposes, such as loading necessary libraries for a program to function, it can also be used for malicious purposes. Attackers can use DLL sideloading to execute arbitrary code on a target system, often by exploiting vulnerabilities in legitimate...

Dragon Breath APT Evolves with Double DLL Sideloading

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Dragon Breath APT targets the gambling industry using the double-clean-app technique & DLL sideloading. Chinese-speaking Windows users are being targeted. To receive real-time threat advisories, please...

Threat Advisory: 3CX Softphone Supply Chain Compromise

Cisco Talos is tracking and actively responding to a supply chain attack involving the 3CX Desktop Softphone application. This is a multi-stage attack that involves sideloading DLLs, seven-day sleep routines, and additional payloads dependent on a now-removed GitHub repository for Windows-based...

CVE-2023-24578

McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.49 allows attackers to elevate user privileges due to DLL sideloading. This could enable a user with lower privileges to execute unauthorized tasks...

Code injection

McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.49 allows attackers to elevate user privileges due to DLL sideloading. This could enable a user with lower privileges to execute unauthorized tasks...