Security researchers have stumbled on a new botnet that uses an interesting technique to mask its nefarious intentions.
The Monkif/DIKhora botnet, which is pushing out Trojan downloaders to infected machines, is encoding the instructions to appear as if the command-and-control server is returning a JPEG image file, according to SecureWorks researcher Jason Milletary. Read the full story [secureworks.com]
Security researchers have stumbled on a new botnet that uses an interesting technique to mask its nefarious intentions.
The Monkif/DIKhora botnet, which is pushing out Trojan downloaders to infected machines, is encoding the instructions to appear as if the command-and-control server is returning a JPEG image file, according to SecureWorks researcher Jason Milletary. Read the full story [secureworks.com]
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