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New Malware Campaign Delivers Remcos RAT Through Multi-Stage Windows Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed SHADOW#REACTOR that employs an evasive multi-stage attack chain to deliver a commercially available remote administration tool called Remcos RAT and establish persistent, covert remote access. "The infection chain follows a tightly orchestrated execution path: an obfuscated VBS launcher executed via wscript.exe invokes a

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CVE-2026-20918: Windows Management Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?** In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

CVE-2026-20860: Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion') in Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

CVE-2026-20852: Windows Hello Tampering Vulnerability

Incorrect privilege assignment in Windows Hello allows an unauthorized attacker to perform tampering locally.

CVE-2026-20876: Windows Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) Enclave Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain Virtual Trust Level 2 (VTL2) privileges.