Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Chaput said whoever was behind the DDoS was definitely not using point-and-click DDoS tools, like a booter or stresser service. A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw “Consider salaries in Russia,” Quotpw said.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. In September, Jha and two accomplices admitted to be the authors of the infamous botnet and avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations.

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APRIL 28, 2019

Threat actors leverage the vulnerability to install denial of service (DDoS) malware and crypto-currency miners, and to remotely execute code. “In our analysis, we saw that an attacker was able to exploit CVE-2019-3396 to infect machines with the AESDDoS botnet malware.” The malware also connects to 23[.]224[.]59[.]34:48080

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnet , including Satori. Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington, aka Nexus Zeta, pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnets. SecurityAffairs – Satori, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

ISS reveals malware attack impacted parts of the IT environment. ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. Lampion malware v2 February 2020. Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

The malware is distributed via a malspam campaign, the spam messages come with malicious attachments or include URL to malicious content. Adwind is could infect all the major operating systems, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, it is available in the cybercrime underground as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Below is the list of vulnerabilities exploited by V3G4: CVE-2012-4869 : FreePBX Elastix Remote Command Execution Vulnerability Gitorious Remote Command Execution Vulnerability CVE-2014-9727 : FRITZ!Box Upon execution, the bot prints xXxSlicexXxxVEGA. to the console. If a botnet process already exists, the botnet client will and exit.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Cobalt cybercrime gang abused Google App Engine in recent attacks. Law enforcement worldwide hunting users of DDoS-for-Hire services. CookieMiner Mac Malware steals browser cookies and sensitive Data. Exclusive: spreading CSV Malware via Google Sheets. The return of the AdvisorsBot malware. 20% discount.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations. ” continues the press release.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

.” In the past, the US Census has been hit by attacks, such as hacks and DDoS attacks during a 2018 test of census systems attributed to Russia-linked hackers and a 2015 hack attributed to the Anonymous collective. The HTA report warns of an intensification of malicious activities conducted by both nation-states and cybercrime groups.

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APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. The code seems inspired from multiple source code of China basis DDoS client, like Elknot. But what kind of malware is this Elknot Trojan?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure. TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies. DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison. New TA2101 threat actor poses as government agencies to distribute malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, in late 2013 and January 2014, we observed higher-than-normal activity in Ukraine by the Turla APT group, as well as a spike in the number of BlackEnergy APT sightings. One month later, a new strain named RansomBoggs again hit Ukrainian targets – both malware families were attributed to Sandworm. Key insights.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it was suing two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a competing proxy service that had been in operation since 2014. But on Dec.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

One of them is the Layer 7 (HTTP) Attack reported in the picture below documenting how this kind of malware can evade the anti-DDoS solutions like Cloudfare. They seem interested in building tools to DDoS and boast about taking down services with OVH, Choopa, NFO – and if the hype is real, maybe even Rocket League servers.”.

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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. In 2014, the U.S. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. 2017 analysis of the RAT.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library. For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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APRIL 21, 2019

A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Operator of Codeshop Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 months in prison. Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation. Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook down worldwide.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Researchers at Malwarebytes are monitoring the evolution of the ElectrumDoSMiner DDoS botnet that reached 152,000 infected hosts. MalwareBytes researchers are closely monitoring attacks against users of the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet, in particular, the evolution of the Electrum DDoS botnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

TA505 cybercrime group use SDBbot RAT in recent campaigns. malware to control Microsoft SQL Servers. Trend Micro Anti-Threat Toolkit could be used to run malware on Win PCs. DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

VMware researchers have analyzed the supply chain behind the Emotet malware reporting that its operators are continually shifting their tactics, techniques, and procedures to avoid detection. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The actors behind FONIX RaaS advertised several products on various cybercrime forums. Currently, FONIX does not appear to be threatening victims with additional consequences (such as public data exposure or DDoS attacks) for non-compliance.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The malware was distributed by a threat group called Outlaw, it was able to target Linux and Android devices, and also Windows systems. The attack chain starts with the malware running a command on the target, to verify that it accepts commands from the command-line interface (CLI). ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

“The malware, which we dubbed PowerGhost, is capable of stealthily establishing itself in a system and spreading across large corporate networks infecting both workstations and servers.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . · Akamai Report: Credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat. · Bitcoin Core Team fixes a critical DDoS flaw in wallet software. · SHEIN Data breach affected 6.42

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. In 2014 it reached the pinnacle of success, becoming the fourth largest botnet in the world.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . · Syrian victims of the GandCrab ransomware can decrypt their files for free. · Thousands of applications affected by a zero-day issue in jQuery File Upload plugin.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

“Over the past week, we have been observing a new malware strain, which we call Torii, that differs from Mirai and other botnets we know of, particularly in the advanced techniques it uses.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. During our daily monitoring activities, we intercepted a singular Linux malware trying to penetrate the network of some of our customers. Introduction. Technical Analysis.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

It also tops the list of annual cybercrime costs at about $18 million. A report published collaboratively by two organizations showed that the average cost of a malware attack for a financial brand was $825,000. But, the expenses climb dramatically for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

They are a big headache for eCommerce businesses today, with cybercriminals using them to steal money, brute-force user credentials or carry out DDoS attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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JULY 28, 2020

The purpose of this report is to deliver a devastating blow to cybercrime by uncovering key organizations sponsoring pirates and exposing the entire criminal structure of online piracy. Because of how popular pirate websites are, they serve as platforms for distributing malware and stealing users’ money and personal data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7 Amazon announced it has mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack of 2.3 ” The report didn’t name the target of the DDoS attack, AWS experts only revealed that the magnitude was obtained with CLDAP reflection attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S.

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