Understanding C2

The battle between cybersecurity professionals and threat actors is always a continuous race against time on whether the threat actors are going to discover a security vulnerability on a system and exploit it before the cybersecurity professionals are able to do so and implement countermeasures to prevent a cyber-attack. As each day goes by, we commonly either read or listen to cybersecurity-related news about how organizations are discovering their systems and networks have been compromised and they are working on eradicating the threat such as malware and recovering their systems to a working state. However, while organizations are not always able to detect security incidents in real time and stop the attack, threat actors are able to live on their targets' networks and systems for a very long time. This allows threat actors to move around the network using lateral and vertical movement, exfiltrate the organization's data, install additional malware on...