{"id":27744,"date":"2026-05-19T15:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/legacy-windows-tool-mshta-fuels-surge-in-silent-malware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:55:37","slug":"legacy-windows-tool-mshta-fuels-surge-in-silent-malware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/legacy-windows-tool-mshta-fuels-surge-in-silent-malware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Windows Tool MSHTA Fuels Surge in Silent Malware Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers are increasingly abusing Microsoft\u2019s decades-old MSHTA utility to stealthily deliver stealers, loaders, and persistent malware through phishing, fake software downloads, and LOLBIN-based attack chains.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/legacy-windows-tool-mshta-fuels-surge-in-silent-malware-attacks\/\">Legacy Windows Tool MSHTA Fuels Surge in Silent Malware Attacks<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/\">SecurityWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers are increasingly abusing Microsoft\u2019s decades-old MSHTA utility to stealthily deliver stealers, loaders, and persistent malware through phishing, fake software downloads, and LOLBIN-based attack chains. The post Legacy Windows Tool MSHTA Fuels Surge in Silent Malware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,80,3511,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endpoint-security","category-malware","category-malware-threats","category-mshta","category-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}