Blog Security Research Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks: The Dangers of Windows UI Automation Tomer Peled is a Security Researcher at Akamai. In his daily job, he conducts research ranging from vulnerability research to OS internals. In his free time, he likes to cook, do Krav Maga, and game on his PC. This analysis is an unfortunate example of how technology created for good can be hijacked for malicious purposes. Editorial and additional commentary by Tricia Howard Executive summary \r\n Akamai security researcher Tomer Peled explored new ways to use and abuse Microsoft's UI Automation framework and discovered an attack technique that evades endpoint detection and response (EDR). \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n To exploit this technique, a user must be convinced to run a program that uses UI Automation.…