Forget what you thought you knew about botnets. Russian intelligence has upgraded the Kazuar backdoor, transforming it into a peer-to-peer beast designed for the shadows.
Turla, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group, has weaponized its Kazuar backdoor, morphing it into a sophisticated peer-to-peer botnet. This evolution marks a significant shift towards deeply embedded, persistent access.
The cybersecurity world loves a good defense narrative. But what happens when the defender turns out to be the attacker? A Brazilian firm, Huge Networks, specialized in DDoS protection, is now at the center of a scandal involving botnet creation and massive distributed denial-of-service attacks.