{"id":228265,"date":"2017-09-08T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T07:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=228265"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T08:00:01","slug":"windows-kernel-bug-prevents-security-apps-from-spotting-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/228265-windows-kernel-bug-prevents-security-apps-from-spotting-malware.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows kernel bug prevents security apps from spotting malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in the Windows kernel dating back to Windows 2000 can be exploited to prevent security applications from detecting malicious software loaded at runtime, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/bug-in-windows-kernel-could-prevent-security-software-from-identifying-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleeping Computer reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is with the\u00a0PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine, a feature Microsoft introduced to notify developers of newly-registered drivers.<\/p>\n<p>It could also detect when a PE image was loaded into virtual memory, so antivirus software developers used the routine to detect malicious operations &#8211; such as code being loaded\u00a0into the kernel or user space.<\/p>\n<p>enSilo has found that the routine does not work as specified, though.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Security Response Center was reportedly contacted about the issue, but it did not feel the bug was a security issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some references indicate the bug was somewhat known, but&#8230; its root cause and full implications weren&#8217;t described in detail up until now,&#8221; said enSilo.<\/p>\n<p>Details of how\u00a0PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine is meant to work, and how the bug alters it, are available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingmalware.com\/documentation\/windows-pssetloadimagenotifyroutine-callbacks-good-bad-unclear-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the enSilo blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/227407-windows-10-fall-creators-update-launch-date-announced.html\">Windows 10 Fall Creators Update launch date announced<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in the Windows kernel dating back to Windows 2000 can be exploited by malware creators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[45913,123,45915,807],"class_list":["post-228265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-ensilo","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-security-response-center-msrc","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228287,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228265\/revisions\/228287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}