Attackers coming in from the Backdoor? [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

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Summary

Vikram Thakur of Symantec Threat Hunter team joins Dave Bittner to discuss their work on Daxin, a new and the most advanced piece of malware researchers have seen from China-linked actors. Symantec said " There is strong evidence to suggest the malware, Backdoor.Daxin, which allows the attacker to perform various communications and data-gathering operations on the infected computer, has been used as recently as November 2021 by attackers linked to China." They go on to explain how Daxin is used to target organizations and governments of strategic interest to China and how those agencies can protect themselves. Symantec also discusses how this is the most advanced piece of malware their researchers have seen. The research can be found here: Daxin: Stealthy Backdoor Designed for Attacks Against Hardened Networks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:26.7	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
1:31.6	down threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems of protecting
1:35.9	ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:39.4	Thanks for joining us.
1:45.0	Well, we stumbled across Daxen during a
1:55.0	well, we stumbled across Daxen during a completely different investigation into malware. When we did, we dug into it, we uncovered a lot, lot, lot more.
2:01.0	That's Vikram Thacker. He's a technical director with Symantec's threat hunter team.
2:06.0	The research we're discussing today is titled Daxen, stealthy backdoor designed for attacks against hardened networks. Want to have your voice heard? Listeners, what are you most proud of this week?
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