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PRE-CVEEXPLOITED
Cisco · Talos

COM Usage in Windows Threats

56% confidence

Description

The article provides substantial new technical details about how malware families like Qakbot and WarmCookie exploit COM for lateral movement, persistence, and evasion, emphasizing the challenges of static analysis due to opaque GUIDs and indirect vtable calls.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
CiscoTalos—

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Introduction to COM usage by Windows threats
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CISA KEV❌ No
Actively exploited✅ Yes
PublishedJun 25, 2026
Last enriched2d agov2
Tags
commalwarewindowsmitre att&ck
Trending Score26
Source articles2
Independent1
Info Completeness6/14
Missing: cve_id, versions, cvss, epss, cwe, kev, patch, iocs

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Verification

State: reported
Confidence: 56%

Vulnerability Timeline

CVE Published
Jun 25, 2026
Actively Exploited
Jun 25, 2026
Exploit Available
Jun 25, 2026
Discovered by ZDM
Jun 25, 2026
Updated: description, vendor, product, exploitAvailable, activelyExploited
Jun 25, 2026

Version History

v2
Last enriched 2d ago
v2Tier C2d ago

Updated description with new technical details on how Qakbot and WarmCookie exploit COM, and added vendor and product information.

descriptionvendorproductexploitAvailableactivelyExploited
via Cisco Talos
v12d ago

Initial creation