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by TACIXAT 3367 days ago
The risk is if your payload is not perfect in all cases. Taken to the extreme, you brick a mission critical device and cost a life. This is why malware researchers don't write clean up code once they do C2 takeovers. If their cleanup command wrecks a medical device or some other ancient box still running XP, that's a lot of liability.