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Hackers abuse FTP server banners to deliver new Windows malware

Threat actors are abusing FTP banners to hide commands that deliver two previously undocumented remote access trojans named E4del and PINHOLE.

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Threat actors have used FTP server banners to conceal commands that deploy two previously undocumented remote‑access trojans, E4del and PINHOLE. MalwareHunterTeam spotted the technique in July during an attack that leveraged shortcut files (.LNK) and the FTP banners as dead‑drop resolvers to fetch the malicious commands.

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