The open-source remote access trojan known as Quasar RAT has been observed leveraging DLL side-loading to fly under the radar and stealthily siphon data from compromised Windows hosts.
« This technique capitalizes on the inherent trust these files command within the Windows environment, » Uptycs researchers Tejaswini Sandapolla and Karthickkumar Kathiresan said in a report published last week,