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0 pointsjwpapi7mo ago0 comments

Why do the attackers publicly share the keys they found? Like what’s their mission?

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theodorejb7mo ago· 1 in thread

My guess would be so they don't have to embed an IP address or hostname in the malware to send secrets to, which could then be blocked or taken down.

jwpapiOP7mo ago

But they could encrypt it, its just double b64 encoded, everybody can read it.

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