{"id":8495,"date":"2026-06-16T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/china-linked-sprysocks-backdoor-expands-to-windows-with-driver-based-stealth\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:11:53","slug":"china-linked-sprysocks-backdoor-expands-to-windows-with-driver-based-stealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/china-linked-sprysocks-backdoor-expands-to-windows-with-driver-based-stealth\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS,&#8221; ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. &#8220;Both come with a hard-coded C&amp;C [command-and-control] configuration and support communication over TCP, UDP,\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS,&#8221; ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. &#8220;Both come with a hard-coded C&amp;C [command-and-control] configuration and support communication over TCP, UDP,\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. &#8220;The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS,&#8221; ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. &#8220;Both come with a hard-coded C&amp;C [command-and-control] configuration and support communication over TCP, UDP,\u00a0Cybersecurity&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/china-linked-sprysocks-backdoor-expands-to-windows-with-driver-based-stealth\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}