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#10 BleepingComputer general August 21, 2026 at 11:00 UTC

Hackers abuse FTP server banners to deliver new Windows malware

By Bill Toulas

AI Summary

Threat actors are abusing FTP server banner fields to covertly embed commands that deliver two previously undocumented Windows RATs named E4del and PINHOLE. This steganographic misuse of a protocol-level field is a novel delivery mechanism likely to evade signature-based detection, warranting inspection of FTP banner content in network monitoring rules.

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