The growth of the hide and seek botnet

Network Security - Tập 2019 - Trang 14-17 - 2019
Sam Haria1
1Invinsec

Tóm tắt

Security researchers recently found a botnet that remains live and working, even after a device has been reset. 1 This malware has been named ‘Hide and Seek’ (HnS) and appears to be the world's first to survive a reboot, making it very persistent and extremely dangerous.

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