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Microsoft's Windows 10 warning: Astaroth malware is back. This time it's even stealth
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Quote:Astaroth, a group that uses legitimate Windows tools to spread malware, has retooled after Microsoft drew attention to its living-off-the-land techniques last July. The group in February stepped up its activity with even stealthier methods. 

Last year the Windows Defender ATP team detected a huge spike in the use of the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool, which is built in to Windows. 

Source(full read)- https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts...tealthier/
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