Experts at FireEye have discovered a stealthy botnet relying on a backdoor called LATENTBOT has compromised companies around the world. The botnet has managed to leave hardly any traces on the Internet, is capable of watching its victims without ever being noticed, and can even corrupt a hard disk, thus making a PC useless. The threat actors appear to be focused on the financial services and insurance sectors, the experts observed multiple campaigns targeting multiple industries. FireEye has uncovered similar samples in the wild across the time, using passive DNS information.”]
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