Security News > 2023 > December > New NKAbuse malware abuses NKN blockchain for stealthy comms
A new Go-based multi-platform malware identified as 'NKAbuse' is the first malware abusing NKN technology for data exchange, making it a stealthy threat.
NKN is a relatively new decentralized peer-to-peer network protocol leveraging blockchain technology to manage resources and maintain a secure and transparent model for network operations.
NKAbuse abuses NKN to launch DDoS attacks that are hard to trace back to a specific infrastructure and unlikely to be flagged due to originating from a novel protocol not actively monitored by most security tools.
Specifically, the malware client communicates with the bot master through NKN to send and receive data.
"All these payloads historically have been used by botnets when combined with the NKN as the communication protocol, the malware can asynchronously wait for the master to launch a combined attack," Kaspersky says.
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