Microsoft’s legacy MSHTA tool heavily abused in malware attacks

Microsoft’s legacy mshta.exe utility remains widely abused in malware campaigns despite the retirement of Internet Explorer and Microsoft’s ongoing deprecation of older scripting technologies. Bitdefender Labs reports a notable rise in detections involving mshta.exe over recent months, suggesting that attackers are increasingly relying on the LOLBIN (Living-off-the-Land binary) as legitimate enterprise use steadily declines. MSHTA … The post Microsoft’s legacy MSHTA tool heavily abused in malware attacks appeared first on CyberInsider.