Sedating the Watchdog: Abusing Security Products to Bypass Mitigations

tldr; design issues in various security products, such as anti-virus, make it significantly easier for threat actors to bypass exploit mitigations. In particular, we found a prevalent flaw where anti-virus products allocate memory with RWX permissions at a predictable address.… Read more →

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