Published on: 2025-07-04 06:47:42
New research has uncovered further links between the Black Basta and Cactus ransomware gangs, with members of both groups utilizing the same social engineering attacks and the BackConnect proxy malware for post-exploitation access to corporate networks. In January, Zscaler discovered a Zloader malware sample that contained what appeared to be a new DNS tunneling feature. Further research by Walmart indicated that Zloader was dropping a new proxy malware called BackConnect that contained code re
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