FireEye security wonks Abdulellah Alsaheel and Raghav Pande have twisted the barrels of Microsoft’s lauded EMET Windows defence gun 180 degrees and fired.
The result of their research is p0wnage of the enhanced mitigation toolkit so that instead of defending Windows it attacks it.
The attacks the pair found affect older versions of Windows which rely on EMET for modern defences like address space layout randomisation and data execution prevention.
Windows 10 already has much of EMET’s payload baked in save for some newly-added features in the latest version 5.5, which is also patched against Alsaheel’s and Pande’s hack. For the full article click here
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