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Least Privilege

A design principle that grants each user, role, or process only the permissions it needs to do its job and no more. Applied to session roles in a remote-access tool, least privilege means a role that never moves files should not carry file-transfer permission.

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How Attackers Turn a Trusted File-Transfer Feature Into a Malware Delivery Channel

Remote-access tools are built to run code on other machines. When the authorization check fails, a trusted file-transfer feature becomes a malware pipeline. Here is how and why.

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