Elias had found it nested deep within the architecture of the city’s automated transit grid. To the untrained eye, it looked like a routine service handler. To Elias, it looked like a Trojan horse made of pure, crystalline logic.
nssm install MyService "\"C:\Program Files\MyApp\app.exe\"" nssm-2.24 exploit
Because developers often bundle NSSM 2.24 with their own software to manage background tasks, vulnerabilities in the parent application can expose NSSM to exploitation: Elias had found it nested deep within the
"It’s not just running code," Elias whispered to the empty server room. "It’s replacing the soul of the machine." si.cb = sizeof(si)
// Start the service with the malicious configuration file STARTUPINFOA si; PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(si)); si.cb = sizeof(si); ZeroMemory(&pi, sizeof(pi));