{"id":7641,"date":"2021-06-29T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:02:31","slug":"microsoft-signed-a-driver-loaded-with-a-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-signed-a-driver-loaded-with-a-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Signed A Driver Loaded With A Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a recent report published by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft confirmed it signed Netfilter a third-party driver for Windows that contains rootkit malware, a malicious collection of computer software designed to allow entry to a computer or part of its software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it remains unclear how the rootkit made it through Microsoft&#8217;s certificate signing process, it has been reported that it made it through the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) despite being connected to a Malware Command and Control Server in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Microsoft said there was a small impact and that the driver did not affect the company&#8217;s users, the tech giant said it was investigating the incident and that it would refine the signing process in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-signed-netfilter-malware-driver-164228266.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Engadget.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft confirmed it signed a third-party driver for Windows that contains rootkit malware, a malicious collection of software designed to allow entry to a computer or part of its software<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7706,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/7706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}