Seriously? *Another* One?!

Right, listen up. Some “researchers” (read: people who get paid to find holes in Microsoft’s garbage) have detailed a new exploit chain targeting Windows’ Event Processing Mechanism (EPM). Apparently, it lets attackers poison the EPM with malicious code. Shocking. Absolutely fucking shocking.

Basically, if an attacker can get some initial foothold – and let’s be real, that’s not exactly Fort Knox they’re breaching most of the time – they can manipulate how Windows handles events. This allows them to load up DLLs wherever they want, leading to domain privilege escalation. Meaning? They go from nobody to king shit in your network.

The worst part? It abuses legitimate system tools. So good luck detecting this crap without knowing *exactly* what you’re looking for. They’ve outlined how it works with stuff like Sysmon and Event Tracing for Windows, making it even more insidious. They call it “EPM Poisoning” because apparently naming things dramatically is important when you’re selling fear.

Microsoft *says* they patched this back in January (of course they did, after everyone’s already been compromised), but if you haven’t updated your systems yet… well, honestly, you deserve whatever you get. Don’t come crying to me when your entire infrastructure is owned.

It involves a lot of DLL hijacking and abusing trusted processes. It’s complicated enough that it requires actual skill to pull off, which means we’re probably looking at nation-state actors or really dedicated ransomware crews. Fantastic.

Just… great. More work for everyone.

Read the full, depressing story here

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You know what’s funny? I once had to debug a system where someone accidentally set their desktop background to a 4GB PNG file. Brought the entire domain controller to its knees. People are idiots. This EPM thing is way more sophisticated, but honestly, it just proves my point: Windows is held together with duct tape and prayers, and users will always find a way to break it.

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