Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new
botnet operation called SSHStalker that relies on the Internet
Relay Chat (IRC) communication protocol for command-and-control
(C2) purposes. "The toolset blends stealth helpers with legacy-era
Linux exploitation: Alongside log cleaners (utmp/wtmp/lastlog
tampering) and rootkit-class artifacts, the actor keeps a large
back-catalog of
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