Krebs on Security
JANUARY 8, 2024
As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. Bogachev is a top Russian cybercriminal with a standing $3 million bounty on his head from the FBI.
CyberSecurity Insiders
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
AT&T Alien Labs™ has found new malware written in the open source programming language Golang. The malware creates a backdoor and waits to either receive a target to attack from a remote operator through port 19412 or from another related module running on the same machine. VirusTotal scanning results of BotenaGo malware.
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SC Magazine
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
These groups are increasingly expanding their operations, creating new malware variants, selling their tools to third parties and targeting flaws in software and web applications. The oldest, CVE-2007-1036 , is a remote code execution vulnerability first discovered back in 2007, which researchers continue to see exploited in the wild.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
The so-called hacktivist groups conducted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and defacement attacks against Ukrainian websites, but the experts believe that they are a front for information operations and destructive cyber activities coordinated by the Kremlin. Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 2, 2019
Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. 2017 analysis of the RAT.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 15, 2020
” The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America and former Soviet bloc nations.
SecureList
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Interestingly, this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. The malware tries to spread to other hosts on the network by infecting USB drives. After this, they were tricked into downloading previously unknown malware.
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