The BITS system is used by Microsoft to send Windows updates to its users and is generally ignored by firewalls
Security researchers have discovered a new malware strain, which uses Microsoft Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to quietly transfer stolen data to attacker-controlled server....
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