{"id":13696,"date":"2026-06-18T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/junior-hacker-used-tailscale-and-html\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:03:33","slug":"junior-hacker-used-tailscale-and-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/junior-hacker-used-tailscale-and-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end.<\/p>\n<p>Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tailscale on a victim&#8217;s machine, building a way back in that did not run through the C2 at all. When the Havoc server went offline the next<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/junior-hacker-used-tailscale-and.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline A French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials. Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end. Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tailscale on a victim&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-13696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}