Researchers uncover SSHStalker, an IRC botnet exploiting legacy Linux flaws and SSH servers to build persistent covert access.

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a service layer system that eases communication in text. The chat process operates on a client/server networking pattern. Computer programs that anyone can install on ...

Despite the name, there's more to Internet Relay Chat than chat - you can also use it to download files. In fact, since major media junkies tap into this old-school, text-based Internet forum, almost ...

" Internet Relay Chat (IRC)" realized in the 1980s as soon as possible a chat that allows clients to exchange text-based communication via a server celebrates its 30th anniversary in August 2018. It ...

Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people to socialize ...

Wow, talk about a dinosaur! IRC seems like it has been around since the dawn of time. Without dating myself, I still remember logging into BBSs back in the eighties and nineties and getting help in ...