Kessel
Essential information
- Confidence
- 100/100
- Is family
- Yes
- Published
- 16/07/2020 17:14
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:06
- Revoked
- No
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
- Related entities
- 14 attack patterns (mitre)
Description
[Kessel](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0487) is an advanced version of OpenSSH which acts as a custom backdoor, mainly acting to steal credentials and function as a bot. [Kessel](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0487) has been active since its C2 domain began resolving in August 2018.(Citation: ESET ForSSHe December 2018)
Marking (TLP)
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