Malware Achieves Privilege Escalation via Windows UAC

Rasheed187 · Jun 8, 2015

itman said: ↑

I agree. Plus the exploit needs a vulnerability. And finally a fully patched system lowers the odds further.
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Don't forget that patches won't help against "zero day" bugs. That's why anti-exploit and/or anti-executable is so important.

Rasheed187 · Jun 14, 2015

TairikuOkami said: ↑

There is so little malware, which can run automatically by exploit than you can actually count it with fingers, AV companies and news regularly scare people with it, but malware does not magically run by itself, when there are passive defences in place, as for the careful user, the chance of him running it are astronomical.
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You probably already read about it, but even Kaspersky and the German government got hacked:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/russia-accused-of-hacking-german-bundestag-2015-6?r=US

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