New developments in the WSL attack. [Research Saturday]

Danny Adamitis from Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, joins Dave to discuss new developments in the WSL attack surface. Since September 2021, Black Lotus Labs have been monitoring malware repositories as a part of their proactive threat hunting process. Danny shares how researchers discovered a series of suspicious ELF files compiled for Debian Linux .
The research states how the team identified a series of samples that target the WSL environment, were uploaded every two to three weeks and that they …

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