A New Flaw Was Discovered in the Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT)

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The flaw discovered by the researchers at Eclypsium in the Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) can be exploited in attacks meant to install rootkits on all Windows computers that were shipped since 2012. Rootkits are malicious computer programs that penetrate a machine in order to gain administrator or system-level rights. Rootkits are primarily designed […]

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