{"id":234453,"date":"2026-04-02T06:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/microsoft-warns-of-whatsapp-delivered-vbs-malware-hijacking-windows-via-uac-bypass"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:25:28","slug":"microsoft-warns-of-whatsapp-delivered-vbs-malware-hijacking-windows-via-uac-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/microsoft-warns-of-whatsapp-delivered-vbs-malware-hijacking-windows-via-uac-bypass","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns of WhatsApp-Delivered VBS Malware Hijacking Windows via UAC Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-warns-of-whatsapp-delivered-vbs-malware-hijacking-windows-via-uac-bypass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp VBS campaign began February 2026, abusing AWS and UAC bypass to gain persistent remote access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp VBS campaign began February 2026, abusing AWS and UAC bypass to gain persistent remote access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234453","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=234453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}