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Malware Analysis & Advanced Persistent Threats
Question
Several fully patched machines from different vendors are found to be compromised. The only processes that contacted the network prior to the compromise were automatic software updates initiated from the machines and no unsolicited inbound connections were made. What is the most likely explanation?
Options
- AThere was a compromise in the vendor's firmware
- BPoorly implemented autoupdates allowed for an evilgrade attack
- CThe attacker used dll injection to bypass authentication on the target machines
- DThere was a vulnerability in the network IPS
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Topics
#evilgrade#auto-update attack#supply chain compromise#man-in-the-middle