News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support A new crypto wallet information stealing Kraken botnet has been discovered by ZeroFox. The malware is able to easily bypass Windows Defender scans by simply adding itself as an exclusion.
Microsoft recently made an update to Window Defender Exclusions permission whereby it is no longer possible to view the excluded folders and files without administrator rights. This is a significant change as threat actors would often use this information to deliver malicious payloads inside such excluded directories in order to bypass Defender scans.
