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The Story of Manuel’s Java RAT.

Security Affairs

As anticipated before, the “ longText ” variable encodes a JAR executable containing the infamous, multi-platform (Win/macOS), Adwind/JRat malware: a Remote Access Tool well known to the InfoSec community. Figure 11 – “manuel.hopto.org” last DNSs of C2 of JRat. Conclusions.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Perhaps even more significant was in 2008 when researcher Dan Kaminsky found a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol, one that could lead to cache poisoning. In April 2012, Google announced ClusterFuzz, a cloud-based fuzzing infrastructure that is used for testing security-critical components of the Chromium web browser.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Perhaps even more significant was in 2008 when researcher Dan Kaminsky found a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol, one that could lead to cache poisoning. In April 2012, Google announced ClusterFuzz, a cloud-based fuzzing infrastructure that is used for testing security-critical components of the Chromium web browser.