Tag: NATS-as-C2

Forensic specialists from Sysdig have intercepted an anomalous command architecture governing a malicious network, wherein the adversaries abandoned conventional HTTP and instant-messaging channels for command-and-control operations. In their stead, the operators weaponized NATS—a high-performance messaging platform typically reserved by cloud engineers for distributed microservice architectures. This unprecedented implementation has been designated NATS-as-C2. The intrusion has…