{"id":9956,"date":"2026-09-21T18:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/fake-lastpass-authenticator-installer-abuses-microsoft-signed-driver-to-kill-antivirus-and-edr\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:13:31","slug":"fake-lastpass-authenticator-installer-abuses-microsoft-signed-driver-to-kill-antivirus-and-edr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/fake-lastpass-authenticator-installer-abuses-microsoft-signed-driver-to-kill-antivirus-and-edr\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s own hardware-compatibility program signs the driver, scored zero detections on VirusTotal when researchers\u00a0A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s own hardware-compatibility program signs the driver, scored zero detections on VirusTotal when researchers\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17. Microsoft&#8217;s own hardware-compatibility program signs the driver, scored zero detections on VirusTotal&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/fake-lastpass-authenticator-installer-abuses-microsoft-signed-driver-to-kill-antivirus-and-edr\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9957,"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\/9956"}],"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=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}