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Attackers Abuse WSL2 to Operate Undetected on Windows Systems


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2026-01-19 13:25:33
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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has transformed the developer experience on Windows. However, it has also quietly created a powerful hiding place for attackers. With WSL2, Microsoft moved from lightweight translation to a whole virtual machine (VM) model. That architectural change gives adversaries a semi-isolated Linux environment running inside Hyper‑V that is rarely monitored by […]


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