If one of these magic packets – described in the lab's report – shows up, the backdoor connects to whoever sent the magic packet using SSL; sends a random, five-character-long alphanumeric ...

Juniper Networks has released emergency security updates to patch a Junos OS vulnerability exploited by Chinese hackers to ...

But the real fun here is the “magic packets”, a TCP or UDP packet filled with random data that triggers an action, like enabling that SSH backdoor service. That idea sounds remarkable similar ...

“If any of these parameters or “magic packets” are received, the agent sends back a secondary challenge. Once that challenge is complete, J-magic establishes a reverse shell on the local ...