Kernel Level Rat "Daxin" Discovered

FortiGuard Labs is aware of a newly discovered backdoor dubbed Daxin. Discovered by Symantec, this backdoor allows an attacker to gather and perform various command and control actions and data exfiltration on victim machines. Because of our partnership with the Cyber Threat Alliance, we were provided with IOCs to create Fortinet protections in advance so that it would be ready for today's announcement.What separates this backdoor from many others is that Daxin is a Windows kernel level driver, also referred …

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