The threat actors behind the PikaBot malware have made significant changes to the malware in what has been described as a case of « devolution. »
« Although it appears to be in a new development cycle and testing phase, the developers have reduced the complexity of the code by removing advanced obfuscation techniques and changing the network communications, » Zscaler ThreatLabz researcher Nikolaos

The threat actors behind the PikaBot malware have made significant changes to the malware in what has been described as a case of « devolution. »
« Although it appears to be in a new development cycle and testing phase, the developers have reduced the complexity of the code by removing advanced obfuscation techniques and changing the network communications, » Zscaler ThreatLabz researcher Nikolaos