OctLurk and SilkLurk: New In-Memory Backdoors Target Central Asia

Kaspersky’s GReAT team identified two new backdoors, OctLurk and SilkLurk, used in a cyber-espionage campaign against targets in Central Asia.

Both operate primarily in memory and inject plugins to launch shells, scan networks, dump credentials, and log keystrokes, according to Securelist. No attribution to a specific named threat actor group was given in the available summary.