Microsoft’s MSHTA Legacy Tool Still Powers Malware Campaigns on Windows
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Bitdefender security researchers have discovered that attackers continue to exploit Microsoft HTML Application Host (MSHTA), a legacy utility available by default on Windows systems that can execute VBScript and JavaScript from local or remote files.
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