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A never-before-seen backdoor quietly took hold of dozens of VPNs running Juniper Network’s Junos OS.
The lightweight backdoor is notable because it resided only in memory, a trait that makes detection harder for defenders.
After receiving a magic packet hidden in the normal flow of TCP traffic, it relays a challenge to the device that sent it.
The challenge comes in the form of a string of text that's encrypted using the public portion of an RSA key.
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