DLL Hijacking: Facts and Fiction
By Oliver LaveryIt’s been
interesting watching DLL hijacking grow from interesting phenomena to a full-on snowball of hype and FUD over
the last few days. As of this writing Google turns up 152 news articles on the
subject. The vast majority
of coverage is calling this a “new class of attack” and pointing out how “over
30 zero-day vulnerabilities have been found so far!”. The only way to
paraphrase many of the headlines is: “Panic!”