29th June, 2018 By Catalin Cimpanu Bleeping Computer

 

Summary - Security firm FireEye has detected that malware authors have deployed the PROPagate code injection technique for the first time inside a live malware distribution campaign.

 

PROPagate is a relatively new code injection technique discovered last November.

Back then, a security researcher found that an attacker could abuse the SetWindowSubclass API, a function of the Windows operating system that manages GUIs, to load and execute malicious code inside the processes of legitimate apps. 

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