As Windows Defender matures and becomes tightly integrated into Windows 10, malware writers are creating techniques to evade its detection. Such is the case with the GootKit banking Trojan, which use a UAC bypass and WMIC commands to exclude the malware executable from being scanned by Windows Defender Antivirus. […]
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Source: Bleeping Computer