TEL AVIV, Israel – Operational technology (OT), cyber and risk management provider OTORIO has launched an open source Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) hardening toolkit to protect ...

DCOM or Distributed Component Object Model is a proprietary Microsoft technology that allows Component Object Model (COM) software to communicate across a network.

It is a Windows process that hosts Component Object Model (COM) objects. If you delete COM Surrogate, it can cause many errors in your operating system and can render it unstable or unusable.

Microsoft says that these new OOBE updates add a Shim to prevent the creation of unsupported Component Object Model (COM) objects.

The DistributedCOM error, also known as DCOM, occurs when an application or service attempts to access the Distributed Component Object Model without the necessary permissions.

Bitdefender named the new group Curly COMrades, since it heavily relies on the curl.exe tool to pull data and communicate with the C2 server, and since it hijacks Component Object Model (COM ...