{"id":209752,"date":"2025-03-26T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/encrypthub-linked-to-mmc-zero-day-attacks-on-windows-systems"},"modified":"2025-03-26T06:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:12:56","slug":"encrypthub-linked-to-mmc-zero-day-attacks-on-windows-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/encrypthub-linked-to-mmc-zero-day-attacks-on-windows-systems","title":{"rendered":"EncryptHub linked to MMC zero-day attacks on Windows systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/encrypthub-linked-to-mmc-zero-day-attacks-on-windows-systems.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A threat actor known as EncryptHub has been linked to Windows zero-day attacks exploiting a Microsoft Management Console vulnerability patched this month.<\/p>\n<p>Uncovered by Trend Micro staff researcher Aliakbar Zahravi, this security feature bypass (dubbed \u2018MSC EvilTwin\u2019 and now tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/update-guide\/en-US\/advisory\/CVE-2025-26633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2025\u201326633<\/a>) resides in how MSC files are handled on vulnerable devices.<\/p>\n<p>Attackers can leverage the vulnerability to evade Windows file reputation protections and execute code because the user is not warned before loading unexpected MSC files on unpatched devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A threat actor known as EncryptHub has been linked to Windows zero-day attacks exploiting a Microsoft Management Console vulnerability patched this month. Uncovered by Trend Micro staff researcher Aliakbar Zahravi, this security feature bypass (dubbed \u2018MSC EvilTwin\u2019 and now tracked as CVE-2025\u201326633) resides in how MSC files are handled on vulnerable devices. Attackers can leverage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}