Many servers and systems are rarely rebooted, and many campaigns are not that long term. There may not be a reason to compromise the target again.
For example, a ransomware gang may compromise a company's network, steal data, deploy the cryptolocker, and then get out. There's no need to have persistent access; they got what they wanted.
I know that very well considering I have servers that have 5 years of uptime, but generally the environment isn't the same as it was with cloud services living less than a few hours (or even seconds for functional endpoints) this becomes a problem.
my first thoughts is that this is actually a vector against people rather than servers which do reboot daily.
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Many servers and systems are rarely rebooted, and many campaigns are not that long term. There may not be a reason to compromise the target again.
For example, a ransomware gang may compromise a company's network, steal data, deploy the cryptolocker, and then get out. There's no need to have persistent access; they got what they wanted.
I know that very well considering I have servers that have 5 years of uptime, but generally the environment isn't the same as it was with cloud services living less than a few hours (or even seconds for functional endpoints) this becomes a problem.
my first thoughts is that this is actually a vector against people rather than servers which do reboot daily.