Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that'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.
"Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (

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