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Nov 02, 2021 / 40:27

EP 33: Scanning the Internet

Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software?

Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. Speaking at this year’s SecTor 2021, he shares some of his findings on Kabolos, a stealthy malware that uses SSH credentials to hide, that is perhaps exposed much easier through scanning the IPv4 space -- all 3.7 billion addresses.