Qbot malware adapts to live another day … and another …

The Qbot malware operation – which started more than a decade ago as banking trojan only to evolve into a backdoor and a delivery system for ransomware and other threats – continues to deftly adapt its techniques to stay ahead of security pros, according to a new report. Most recently, the operators behind Qbot – also known as …

[Anonymous Coward]

Even if the "residential IP" is up all the time....are the hosts either "up" or "available"??

Quote: "...web servers and hosts that are in an existing residential IP space...."

Not sure that I understand.........usually "residential IP" instances are simply not permitted to run servers.......bots or not!

More explanation needed!!

[Paul Crawford]

Re: Even if the "residential IP" is up all the time....are the hosts either "up" or "available"??

More explanation needed!!

UPnP perhaps?

[Clausewitz4.0]

Re: Even if the "residential IP" is up all the time....are the hosts either "up" or "available"??

In a lot of countries, where residential IPs are not under CGNAT, users can run servers in higher ports like 15443 for example.

upnp may be used, but thats not strictly necessary.