{"id":2983,"date":"2026-01-14T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=2983"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:18:00","slug":"hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading-to-bypass-security-and-deploy-malware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=2983","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security 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 (<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2984,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2983","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}