CYBERSECURITY
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Introduction to COM usage by Windows threats
BY
Vanja Svajcer
SOURCE
Cisco Talos Blog
DATE
READ
1 min read
Component Object Model (COM) is a fundamental Windows technology used by legitimate applications for object activation, inter-process communication, automation and language-independent component reuse. Those same …
Component Object Model (COM) is a fundamental Windows technology used by legitimate applications for object activation, inter-process communication, automation and language-independent component reuse. Those same qualities make it useful to threat actors.