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Hackers Have Found an Entirely New Way To Backdoor Into Microsoft Windows
A university in Taiwan was breached with "a previously unseen backdoor (Backdoor.Msupedge) utilizing an infrequently seen technique," Symantec reports. The most notable feature of this backdoor is that it communicates with a command-and-control server via DNS traffic... The code for the DNS tunnel...
A university in Taiwan was breached with "a previously unseen backdoor (Backdoor.Msupedge) utilizing an infrequently seen technique," Symantec reports. The vulnerability is a CGI argument injection flaw affecting all versions of PHP installed on the Windows operating system. More from The Record: Compared to more obvious methods like HTTP or HTTPS tunneling, this technique can be harder to detect because DNS traffic is generally considered benign and is often overlooked by security tools.
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