back to article 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 …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    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!!

    1. Paul Crawford Silver badge
      Trollface

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

      More explanation needed!!

      UPnP perhaps?

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