Beware of an attack that uses modified shortcut icons to trick Windows machines into sharing their network-access rights with a hacked PC.
That warning was sounded Tuesday by researchers at endpoint security vendor Imperva, who said they've discovered a way to poison Windows folders and gain the access rights of anyone who browses to that folder. The hack involves exploiting a relaying feature in Microsoft NT LAN Manager (NTLM), which is a widely used Windows challenge-response authentication protocol.
"Poisoning is a big word for saying I'm creating a file in that folder that has an icon pointing back to my computer; that's GUI stuff," said Amichai Shulman, CTO of Imperva, in an interview at last week's Infosecurity Europe conference.
That warning was sounded Tuesday by researchers at endpoint security vendor Imperva, who said they've discovered a way to poison Windows folders and gain the access rights of anyone who browses to that folder. The hack involves exploiting a relaying feature in Microsoft NT LAN Manager (NTLM), which is a widely used Windows challenge-response authentication protocol.
"Poisoning is a big word for saying I'm creating a file in that folder that has an icon pointing back to my computer; that's GUI stuff," said Amichai Shulman, CTO of Imperva, in an interview at last week's Infosecurity Europe conference.
