Security News > 2022 > December > Researchers Uncover New Drokbk Malware that Uses GitHub as a Dead Drop Resolver
2022-12-09 11:25
The subgroup of an Iranian nation-state group known as Nemesis Kitten has been attributed as behind a previously undocumented custom malware dubbed Drokbk that uses GitHub as a dead drop resolver to exfiltrate data from an infected computer, or to receive commands. "The use of GitHub as a virtual dead drop helps the malware blend in," Secureworks principal researcher Rafe Pilling said. "All the
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