{"id":8515,"date":"2026-06-17T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/junior-hacker-used-tailscale-and-openssh-to-keep-access-after-his-c2-went-offline\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:11:29","slug":"junior-hacker-used-tailscale-and-openssh-to-keep-access-after-his-c2-went-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/junior-hacker-used-tailscale-and-openssh-to-keep-access-after-his-c2-went-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end.<\/p>\n<p>Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tailscale on a victim&#8217;s machine, building a way back in that did not run through the C2 at all. When the Havoc server went offline the next\u00a0A French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end.<\/p>\n<p>Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tailscale on a victim&#8217;s machine, building a way back in that did not run through the C2 at all. When the Havoc server went offline the next\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials. Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end. Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tailscale on a victim&#8217;s machine, building a way back in that did not run through the C2 at&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/junior-hacker-used-tailscale-and-openssh-to-keep-access-after-his-c2-went-offline\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8516,"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\/8515"}],"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=8515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}