Unfortunately, security researchers are a clever lot; they discovered ways by which DEP could be defeated, for example by passing control not to their own executable code, but instead to one of ...

For example #define my_dma_en, if this “my_dma_en” deifne ... These object files have areas called sections. Sections can hold executable code, data, dynamic linking information, debugging data, ...

However, executable code hidden in PNG images is a key part ... to gain access to the systems and initially infect them. An example of what one of the infected images looks like.

QR code-based phishing, or “quishing,” is not new. INKY itself warned about its growing prominence back in 2023, but forward two years and INKY says that attackers are now going a step further by ...