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> Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 14/01/2026 14:18] [LANGUAGE: EN]
Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware
Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that'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. "Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (
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