{"id":10397,"date":"2026-02-04T21:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/attackers-use-screensavers-drop-malware-rmm-tools\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:23:27","slug":"attackers-use-screensavers-drop-malware-rmm-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/attackers-use-screensavers-drop-malware-rmm-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Attackers Use Windows Screensavers to Drop Malware, RMM Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Attackers Use Windows Screensavers to Drop Malware, RMM Tools<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>By tapping the unusual .scr file type, attackers leverage &#8220;executables that don&#8217;t always receive executable-level controls,&#8221; one researcher noted.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Alexander Culafi<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/application-security\/attackers-use-screensavers-drop-malware-rmm-tools\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers Use Windows Screensavers to Drop Malware, RMM Tools By tapping the unusual .scr file type, attackers leverage &#8220;executables that don&#8217;t always receive executable-level controls,&#8221; one researcher noted. Alexander Culafi Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-10397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}