{"id":184568,"date":"2024-03-09T01:49:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/hackers-abuse-qemu-to-covertly-tunnel-network-traffic-in-cyberattacks"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:49:28","slug":"hackers-abuse-qemu-to-covertly-tunnel-network-traffic-in-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/hackers-abuse-qemu-to-covertly-tunnel-network-traffic-in-cyberattacks","title":{"rendered":"Hackers abuse QEMU to covertly tunnel network traffic in cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-abuse-qemu-to-covertly-tunnel-network-traffic-in-cyberattacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malicious actors were detected abusing the open-source hypervisor platform QEMU as a tunneling tool in a cyberattack against a large company.<\/p>\n<p>QEMU is a free emulator and hypervisor that allows you to run other operating systems as guests on a computer.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the attack, threat actors used QEMU to create virtual network interfaces and a socket-type network device to connect to a remote server. This allowed the threat actors to create a network tunnel from the victim\u2019s system to the attacker\u2019s server with negligible impact on system performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious actors were detected abusing the open-source hypervisor platform QEMU as a tunneling tool in a cyberattack against a large company. QEMU is a free emulator and hypervisor that allows you to run other operating systems as guests on a computer. As part of the attack, threat actors used QEMU to create virtual network interfaces [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}