{"id":120532,"date":"2017-09-09T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120532"},"modified":"2017-09-08T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:48:44","slug":"bug-in-windows-kernel-prevents-security-apps-from-detecting-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/120532-bug-in-windows-kernel-prevents-security-apps-from-detecting-malware","title":{"rendered":"Bug in Windows kernel prevents security apps from detecting 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,\u00a0<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 \u2013 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>\u201cSome references indicate the bug was somewhat known, but\u2026 its root cause and full implications weren\u2019t described in detail up until now,\u201d said enSilo.<\/p>\n<p>Details of how\u00a0PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine is meant to work, and how the bug alters it, are available\u00a0<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<h4><strong>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><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25040,1461,2791],"class_list":["post-120532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-kernel","tag-security","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}