Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Avast spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From then, the company has been offering antivirus software, multi-cloud security, extended detection and response and anti-virus and IoT protection. NOTE 2 – Bitdefender has been assisting Europol European Cybercrime Centre in solving cyber crime from the year 2017 and is also assisting Interpol from the year 2020.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Adopt a comprehensive IoT security solution. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity as DEV-1061.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. The Enemybot botnet employs several methods to spread and targets other IoT devices. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. Several groups of experts linked both TrickBot and Ryuk threats to cybercrime gangs operating out of Russia. ransomware, that was first spotted in late 2017 and was available for sale on the open market as of August 2018.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

. “According to court documents, the botnets were initially based largely on the source code previously developed by other individuals to create the Mirai botnet;” In September 2019, Schuchman pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnets. Schuchman also managed the purchases of new exploits for the botnet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. The Enemybot botnet employs several methods to spread and targets other IoT devices. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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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. District Judge Timothy M. “On Dec.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

’s National Crime Agency (NCA) in February 2017. In June 2017, Kaye pleaded guilty in court to hijacking more than 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom. The man used a custom version of the Mirai IoT malware. government agencies [ PDF ]. Kaye was arrested by U.K.’s

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 , up from $3 trillion in 2015. Global cybersecurity spending is not keeping up, and is estimated to be $1 trillion cumulatively over the 5 year period from 2017 to 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2022

CVE-2017-17215 targets Huawei HG532 routers. “By continuously monitoring the evolving threat landscape, FortiGuard Labs researchers identify new vulnerabilities exploited by Mirai variants and malware targeting IoT devices to bring greater awareness to such threats and better secure our customers’ networks.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. According to the authorities, the three earned roughly $180,000 through their click fraud scheme.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In January 2017, almost a year before Jha’s arrest and guilty plea, KrebsOnSecurity identified Jha as the likely co-author of Mirai — which sprang to notoriety after a record-smashing Sept. The last two attacks were motivated in part by the publicity and outrage” his previous attacks had generated.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

The botmaster has infected systems by exploiting the CVE-2017-17215 vulnerability in Huawei HG532 routers. The CVE-2017-17215 is a well-known vulnerability that was used by many other botnets, including the Mirai Satori , to gather zombies. As one can see, it uses only 1 exploit, 2017-17215. 2/n pic.twitter.com/F5BNNbf3bM.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 20, 2022

The DOJ says RSOCKS initially targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers, though it expanded to targeting additional types of devices including conventional computers.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. ” Shwydiuk, a.k.a. — pleaded guilty in Sept.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

MATA is also able to target Linux-based diskless network devices, including such as routers, firewalls, or IoT devices. The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, the details of 1.8 With the advent of IoT technologies, big data and machine learning, attack tools become more advanced and encompass several information systems and resources. Map of Middle-Eastern Countries.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

“Unlike last year’s Apache Struts exploit ( CVE-2017-5638 ), which was at the center of the Equifax breach , this vulnerability appears easier to exploit because it does not require the Apache Struts installation to have any additional plugins running in order to successfully exploit it.”. continues the report from Volexity.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

SAFR was rolled out with little fanfare at two Seattle pilot schools about a year ago, in early 2017. This partnership can be a huge first step in developing holistic human biometric solutions that can protect us all against spoofing, impersonation, fraud and cybercrime,” she says. Secure credentialing.

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Check out how China teleported a photon into space in 2017. Enter a world where Cybercrime is now bigger than Drug Crime, globally costing Trillions in damages with new threat actors, new forms of malware, cybercriminals, hackers, cyberespionage by nation states and too many exploitable vulnerabilities to count. Sounds absurd?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Case studies of data breaches in the financial services industry In 2017 Equifax announced the most significant data breaches in the financial service industry that exposed personal information such as names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s licenses numbers of 147 million people.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Researchers at the CenturyLink Threat Research Labs discovered that the operators of the TheMoon IoT botnet are offering it as a service. The activity of the TheMoon botnet was first spotted in 2014, and since 2017 its operators added to the code of the bot at least 6 IoT device exploits.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Through the years, we’ve seen several strains of ransomware make headlines: CryptoLocker in 2013, Locky in 2016, WannaCry and Hermes in 2017, GandCrab in 2018, and now, Ryuk joins the pack of notable names in criminal malware. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. which allows it to attack a wider range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Since the code of the Mirai botnet was leaked online many variants emerged in the threat landscape.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

Progress in combating cybercrime Europol and the U.S. The most-exploited vulnerabilities in that category were the following: CVE-2017-11882 and CVE-2018-0802 : Equation Editor vulnerabilities that allow corrupting application memory during formula processing to then run arbitrary code in the system. 41.39% 2 Backdoor.Linux.Mirai.b

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Another actor, the operator of two “stressers” (used to carry out DDoS attacks) was found guilty of cybercrime in court. The fate of the WireX botnet operator , who attacked an international hotel chain in 2017, is a little more hazy. Attacks on IoT honeypots. Sentencing will not take place until January 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Related :Promise vs. pitfalls of IoT For small- and mid-sized businesses, firewalls, antivirus suites and access management systems represent the entry stakes for participating in today’s digital economy. Botnets at the time were just emerging; they’ve since become entrenched as the engine that drives all of cybercrime.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The bot infiltrated the devices through the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability, which allows execution of arbitrary commands. Like CVE-2017-6079, this vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Glupteba consists of a million infected IoT devices and Windows computers. Attacks on IoT honeypots.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

As with any potential cybercrime, deterrence here will be aided by an awareness of what deepfakes are, how they work, and what they can and can’t do. Internet of Things, or IoT devices, already represent a mature technological industry. In a perfect world, they make life easier, and the products supported by IoT more useful.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hackers started using the internet to commit cybercrimes, such as stealing credit card numbers and personal information. 2000s As digitization opened up new avenues for exploits, the early 2000s marked a continuation of the rise of both computer hacking and cybercrime that began in the 1990s.

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