What Is a Command and Control Attack? Command and control cyberattacks (C2 or C&C for short) happen when bad actors infiltrate a system and install malware that lets them remotely send commands from a ...

A once-dormant command-and-control server for Flokibot has woken up and begun to distribute a new point-of-sale (PoS) malware family. The new threat, which researchers at Arbor Networks call “LockPoS, ...

Fortinet is alerting customers of a critical OS command injection vulnerability in FortiSIEM report server that could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute commands through ...

Researchers have sinkholed a command and control server for a variant of the PlugX malware and observed in six months more than 2.5 million connections from unique IP addresses. Since last September, ...