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Coyote malware abuses Microsoft's UI Automation to hunt banking creds

A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft's UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.… According to Akamai, which documented the UIA ...
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Banking Trojan Coyote Abuses Windows UI Automation

Coyote, a banking Trojan that has been causing havoc in Latin America since February 2024, has broken new ground by exploiting the Windows UI automation framework to hunt for account information on ...
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Coyote malware abuses Windows accessibility framework for data theft

A new variant of the banking trojan 'Coyote' has begun abusing a Windows accessibility feature, Microsoft's UI Automation framework, to identify which banking and cryptocurrency exchange sites are ...
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Attackers can abuse the Windows UI Automation framework to steal data from apps

An Akamai researcher found a feature built into Windows for people with disabilities can be abused by malware to steal data and control applications without EDR tools detecting it. An accessibility ...