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SECURITY.COM is the company blog at symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com, writing about security. Since 2021, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Daxin: Stealthy Backdoor Designed for Attacks Against Hardened Networks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Symantec threat-research posts on malware, hacking tools and state-linked intrusions, cited as sources in HN discussions of security advisories and attacks. One commenter prefers it to a news article on the same hack.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Daxin: Stealthy Backdoor Designed for Attacks Against Hardened Networks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-28
What Hacker News says?
I wonder if the use of a .win domain had any influence. I've seen nothing but spam and malware / phishing from these $2 TLDs. https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/feature...
Comment linking /blogs/feature-stories/top-20-shady-top-level-domains
on “Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site”Submitted Daxin: Stealthy Backdoor Designed for Attacks Against Hardened Networks as a story · 19 points
HN discussionApparently this is a thing.. https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/threat-...
Comment linking /blogs/threat-intelligence/fakebank-intercepts-calls-banks
on “The ‘Zelle fraud’ scam: how it works, how to fight back”Submitted Hackers Have Found an New Way to Backdoor into Microsoft Windows as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat article focuses on the least interesting parts of the hack. The Symantec blog post is much better: https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/threat-...
Comment linking /blogs/threat-intelligence/daxin-backdoor-espionage
on “‘Sophisticated’ new Chinese hacking tool found, spurring US warning to allies”Submitted Witchetty: Group Uses Updated Toolset in Attacks on Governments in Middle East as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you were actually interested in evidence you'd be able to find it, as I have, in a minute or two of following links. For example: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa... https://attack.mitre.org/versions/v13/techniques/T1021/004/ > G0098 BlackTech BlackTech has used Putty for remote access.[2] https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/threat-... > The Threat Hunter Team at Syman…
Comment linking /blogs/threat-intelligence/palmerworm-blacktech-espionage-apt
on “CISA, NSA, FBI Release Advisory Warning of BlackTech, PRC-Linked Cyber Activity”Submitted Raindrop: New Malware Discovered in SolarWinds Investigation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHaving worked for a large telco that ran an oppressive network that performed TLS inspection on all corporate traffic, I imagine there'd be demand to inspect TLS 1.3 traffic. Banks, Boring Enterprise, Governments, Intelligence Community, etc. are the types of customers that are interested in this. Here is a vendor implementing TLS 1.3 inspection [1] - they probably don't call it ETS (since there's a CVE attached to…
Comment linking /blogs/product-insights/removing-blind-spots-ssltls
on “RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations”Submitted 3AM: New Ransomware Family Written in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Noberus: Technical Analysis Shows Sophistication of New Rust-Based Ransomware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apt Group Uses Updated Custom Tool in Attacks on Government and Telecoms Org as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hackers use Microsoft-signed malware to target victims in Hong Kong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Malware Abuses Microsoft IIS Feature to Establish Backdoor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile App Vulnerabilities Could Endanger Sensitive Business Information as a story · 1 points
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