Security News > 2025 > April > New BPFDoor Controller Enables Stealthy Lateral Movement in Linux Server Attacks
2025-04-16 10:37
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new controller component associated with a known backdoor called BPFDoor as part of cyber attacks targeting telecommunications, finance, and retail sectors in South Korea, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Egypt in 2024. "The controller could open a reverse shell," Trend Micro researcher Fernando Mercês said in a technical report published earlier in
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