Aug. 4, 2022, noon | Edmund Brumaghin (noreply@blogger.com)

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group - Comprehensive Threat Intelligence blog.talosintelligence.com

By Edmund Brumaghin, Azim Khodjibaev and Matt Thaxton, with contributions from Arnaud Zobec.

Executive Summary


  • Dark Utilities, released in early 2022, is a platform that provides full-featured C2 capabilities to adversaries.
  • It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and cryptocurrency mining operations on infected systems.
  • Payloads provided by the platform support Windows, Linux and Python-based implementations and are hosted within the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), making them resilient …

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