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Glossary: Application and Credential Attacks, and AI Risks

C2 (command and control)

Also written: command and control, C2 server, C&C

The attacker's server that sends orders to malware and receives its reports. The updater program's string http://203.0.113.50/gate.php pointed to one.

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plaintext stringstrings (command)indicator of compromise (IoC)