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shadowgovt on Aug 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: FBI, partners dismantle Qakbot infrastructure

One of my favorite tricks in dealing with botnets: if you can access the control plane, you can convince the network to do most anything... Including self-terminate.

1-6 on Aug 29, 2023 [–]

Until bot operators learn to encrypt the control plane network.

apstls on Aug 29, 2023 | [–]

This was the case here as well.

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