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E4del and PINHOLE RATs Turn FTP Banners Into Dead Drops for Malware Commands


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2026-08-25 12:38:03
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Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that employs FTP banners as dead drop resolvers (DDRs) to deliver two previously unreported remote access trojans (RATs) tracked as E4del and PINHOLE.

While threat actors are known to abuse legitimate services to point to additional command-and-control (C2) infrastructure and blend in with regular network traffic, the development



Source: TheHackerNews
Source Link: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/e4del-and-pinhole-rats-turn-ftp-banners.html


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