oh, it's like... port triggering, plus the college assignment that required me to clumsily assemble my own packet in C! magic packets makes for a better headline, though ...anyways, what makes this ...

A malicious campaign has been specifically targeting Juniper edge devices, many acting as VPN gateways, with malware dubbed J-magic that starts a reverse shell only if it detects a “magic packet” in ...

A new Linux rootkit malware named ‘Syslogk’ is being used in attacks to hide malicious processes, using specially crafted "magic packets" to awaken a backdoor laying dormant on the device. The malware ...

After doing some testing*, I _suspect_ that Adelphia is blocking several inbound port numbers and possibly all inbound UDP packets.<br><br>I am trying to find a more flexible Wake-On-LAN utility that ...

IT security researchers have examined backdoors in Juniper routers with which the devices were equipped by the perpetrators during a wave of attacks. A special feature is that they first passively ...

A new Linux kernel rootkit dubbed ‘syslogk’ has been spotted in the wild by Avast cybersecurity researchers. According to an advisory by David Álvarez and Jan Neduchal, syslogk would be able to cloak ...