Incident responders say they’ve found a new type of multi-platform malware abusing the New Kind of Network (NKN) protocol.
Dubbed “NKAbuse” by the researchers, the Go-based backdoor offers criminal attackers a range of possibilities, including being able to DDoS or fling remote access trojans (RATs), and leans on NKN for more anonymous yet reliable data exchange.
NKN is an open source protocol that lets users perform a peer-to-peer (P2P) data exchange over a public blockchain – like a cross between a traditional blockchain and the Tor network. More than 60,000 official nodes are active and the network’s algorithms determine the optimum route for data exchange across those nodes.
