Security News > 2025 > January > Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

Here's what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts up for hijacking by criminals who likely have less altruistic intentions than the security researchers who uncovered the backdoors.…

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