Command and control attacks allow hackers to take over entire networks or turn individual PCs into an army of bots they can use for their bidding. You may have heard about them recently when the ...

The Accountability Review Board’s investigation into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi ... or operated under direct AQ command and control,” the report reads.

"The payload was an open source red teaming tool called "Google Command and Control" (GC2)." Google says that APT41 also used GC2 in attacks against an Italian job search website in July 2022.

"Similarly, reports of person-in-the-middle style attacks, such as DNS and HTTP ... Black Lotus Labs said the command and control infrastructure used in the campaign is intentionally complex ...