Microsoft’s legacy mshta.exe utility remains widely abused in malware campaigns despite the retirement of Internet Explorer and Microsoft’s ongoing deprecation of older scripting technologies. Bitdefender Labs reports a notable rise in detections involving mshta.exe over recent months, suggesting that attackers are increasingly relying on the LOLBIN (Living-off-the-Land binary) as legitimate enterprise use steadily declines. MSHTA …
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