Cobalt Strike and Metasploit, two penetration testing toolkits usually employed by security researchers, have been used to host more than a quarter of all the malware command and control (C&C) servers ...

Researchers have sinkholed a command and control server for a variant of the PlugX malware and observed in six months more than 2.5 million connections from unique IP addresses. Since last September, ...

What Is a Command and Control Attack? Command and control cyberattacks (C2 or C&C for short) happen when bad actors infiltrate a system and install malware that lets them remotely send commands from a ...

Security researchers from German antivirus vendor G Data Software have identified a botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside ...

The Cranefly hacking group, aka UNC3524, uses a previously unseen technique of controlling malware on infected devices via Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server logs. Microsoft ...

“We hate to see any software products used for malicious purposes, but unfortunately, remote control tools are used for this purpose all too frequently,” said ConnectWise Chief Product Officer Jeff ...

With GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10, GitHub promises both developers and administrators more control over repositories, along with enhanced security and compliance controls. Introduced August 29, ...