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Millions of IPs Remain Infected By USB Worm Years After Its Creators Left It For Dead
Friday April 26, 2024. 09:22 PM , from Slashdot
For reasons that aren't clear, the worm creator abandoned the one and only IP address that was designated as its command-and-control channel. With no one controlling the infected machines anymore, the PlugX worm was effectively dead, or at least one might have presumed so. The worm, it turns out, has continued to live on in an undetermined number of machines that possibly reaches into the millions, researchers from security firm Sekoia reported. The researchers purchased the IP address and connected their own server infrastructure to 'sinkhole' traffic connecting to it, meaning intercepting the traffic to prevent it from being used maliciously. Since then, their server continues to receive PlugX traffic from 90,000 to 100,000 unique IP addresses every day. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1753250/millions-of-ips-remain-infected-by-usb-worm-years-aft...
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