Windows 10's Linux subsystem lets you hide viruses

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IncreaseBashware Allows Any Malware to Run Silently in Windows 10
Bashware Allows Any Malware to Run Silently in Windows 10
In March last year, Microsoft announced support for the bash command interpreter in Windows 10. To implement it, the company, together with Canonical, developed the Linux subsystem (Windows Subsystem for Linux, WSL), which allows you to run Linux applications without using virtualization containers, separate rebuilding of utilities, and even without using the Linux kernel - native OS executable files are launched thanks to a special layer that translates Linux system calls into Windows system calls on the fly.

WSL was created as a project independent of specific lebanon mobile database distributions, although in the first version it was optimized for work with Ubuntu. Then, in Windows 10, support for openSUSE Leap appeared , and after testing WSL in the user version of Windows, Microsoft decided to add it to the server edition of the operating system. It is noteworthy that several months after the appearance of WSL in the "ten", there were voices of critics who believed that the subsystem could serve as an obstacle to detecting viruses. And now, almost a year later, their fears have been confirmed.

Check Point experts said that with the help of WSL, a number of known malware can be launched on a PC, making them invisible to the most common antivirus protection tools. Experts note that the problem lies not in WSL, which is “done right,” but in a certain carelessness of antivirus software and security system developers.