It’s 2017, and UPnP is helping black-hats run banking malware

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Another banking malware variant has been spotted in the wild, and it’s using UPnP to pop home routers to expose unsuspecting home users, recruited as part of the botnet. McAfee Labs says the new campaign uses a variant of the ancient “Pinkslipbot”, and says it uses Universal Plug’n’Play (UPnP) to open ports through home routers, “allowing incoming connections from anyone on the Internet to communicate with the infected machine”.

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