{"id":9886,"date":"2026-01-15T07:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:03:36","slug":"hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that&#8217;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.<br \/>\n&#8220;Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/01\/hackers-exploit-c-ares-dll-side-loading.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that&#8217;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. &#8220;Attackers achieve evasion by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-9886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886"}],"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=9886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}