{"id":6672,"date":"2026-01-14T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading-to-bypass-security-and-deploy-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:13:11","slug":"hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading-to-bypass-security-and-deploy-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading-to-bypass-security-and-deploy-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSecurity experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that&#8217;s exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers.<br \/>\n&#8220;Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (\u00a0Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that&#8217;s exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers.<br \/>\n&#8220;Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSecurity experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that&#8217;s exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers. &#8220;Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading-to-bypass-security-and-deploy-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}