Windows 1. 0 S Doesn't Appear to Be as Invulnerable to Ransomware as Microsoft Claims. Microsoft’s tall claim that “no known ransomware” will run on its Windows 1. S operating system has been weighed, measured, and found wanting. In a report published Friday by ZDNet, Hacker House security researcher Matthew Hickey reportedly broke through the operating system’s security in a little over three hours. Hickey was able to attain remote admin control and disable various security settings leaving the system wide open for a malware attack. Hickey’s hack began with an old technique known as DLL injection, whereby malicious code is run within a process the operating systems views as non- threatening—in this case, a Word document with built- in macros allowed him to bypass restrictions on the Windows operating systems designed to prevent the use of apps not found in the Microsoft Store. After evading Word’s anti- macro protection by downloading the document from a network share—as opposed to a hyperlink or email attachment—Hickey could run some malicious code giving him administrative privileges.
Using the penetration- testing software Metasploit, Hickey then gained the highest level of access possible, system privileges, and repeated the DLL injection, granting him remote control over the machine. While Windows 1. 0 S may be less vulnerable to attack because it will only run rigorously tested software approved by Microsoft, there *are* still ways to infect machines running the OS. Although Microsoft never actually claimed to have built an unhackable machine, even implying that its OS is invulnerable to all “known ransomware” is pretty pretentious. Bold security claims invite challenge. Since Microsoft summarily dismissed ZDNet’s research without much explanation, I’d expect to see more egg on its face soon.
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