{"id":19762,"date":"2026-04-01T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/microsoft-warns-of-whatsapp-delivered-vbs-malware-hijacking-windows-via-uac-bypass-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:49:00","slug":"microsoft-warns-of-whatsapp-delivered-vbs-malware-hijacking-windows-via-uac-bypass-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/microsoft-warns-of-whatsapp-delivered-vbs-malware-hijacking-windows-via-uac-bypass-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns of WhatsApp-Delivered VBS Malware Hijacking Windows via UAC Bypass info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is calling attention to a new campaign that has leveraged WhatsApp messages to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBS) files.<br \/>\nThe activity, beginning in late February 2026, leverages these scripts to initiate a multi-stage infection chain for establishing persistence and enabling remote access. It&#8217;s currently not known what lures the threat actors use to trick users into<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/microsoft-warns-of-whatsapp-delivered.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is calling attention to a new campaign that has leveraged WhatsApp messages to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBS) files. The activity, beginning in late February 2026, leverages these scripts to initiate a multi-stage infection chain for establishing persistence and enabling remote access. It&#8217;s currently not known what lures the threat actors use to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}