CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

In November 2021, AT&T Alien Labs™ first published research on our discovery of new malware written in the open-source programming language Golang. The team named this malware “BotenaGo.” Alien Labs expects to see new campaigns based on BotenaGo variants targeting routers and IoT devices globally.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

Experts pointed out that the malware is being actively developed. The Enemybot botnet employs several methods to spread and targets other IoT devices. The malware can quickly adopt one-day vulnerabilities (within days of a published proof of concept).” LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

The availability online of a new collection of Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices made the headlines. In August 2017, security researchers Ankit Anubhav found a list of more than 1,700 valid Telnet credentials for IoT devices online. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

A new variant of TheMoon malware infected thousands of outdated small office and home office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices worldwide. The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies uncovered an updated version of “ TheMoon ” bot targeting end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 27, 2017

Bill Detwiler talks to TechRepublic's Dan Patterson about the big takeaways from the Global Cybersecurity Summit 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine and the growing security threats from IoT devices and machine-learning-created malware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? In 2017, Tesla sent an over-the-air update to their Model S and X vehicles to extend maximum battery capacity and driving range, which allowed owners to drive an extra 30 miles outside the evacuation area as Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida. weak cryptography, software bugs, malware, etc.).

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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. Zerobot operators are offering the botnet as a malware-as-a-service model, one domain (zerostresser[.]com)

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any unwanted software on your computer that, more often than not, is designed to inflict damage. Since the early days of computing, a wide range of malware types with varying functions have emerged. Best Practices to Defend Against Malware. Jump ahead: Adware. RAM scraper.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The botnet was linked to a new malware hosting domain that has been serving Mirai variants for several different botnets over the past year. This payload contains the logic to change the execution path to a temporary location, wget a file from a malware hosting page, provide execution permissions, and execute it.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. attackers abuse M2M protocols to target IoT and IIoT devices. The post M2M protocols can be abused to attack IoT and IIoT systems appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

The Taiwanese vendor QNAP urges its users to update the Malware Remover app following the alert on the QSnatch malware. The Taiwanese company QNAP is urging its users to update the Malware Remover app to prevent NAS devices from being infected by the QSnatch malware. Webshell functionality for remote access.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group has used a new multi-platform malware framework, dubbed MATA, to target entities worldwide. The MATA malware framework could target Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The malware framework implements a wide range of features that allow attackers to fully control the infected systems.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

US and UK cybersecurity agencies issued a joint advisory about the spread of QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware that already infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. The QSnatch malware implements multiple functionalities, such as: . The experts were alerted about the malware in October and immediately launched an investigation.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

The drivers of IoT-centric commerce appear to be unstoppable. Count on the wide deployment of IoT systems to continue at an accelerated rate. There are already more IoT devices than human beings on the planet, according to tech industry research firm Gartner. Here’s what to expect: Evermore plugged in.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As we look forward into 2017 cyber attacks , information security teams have to think like hackers in order to stay ahead of the challenges to come. Malware linked to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) was stolen, possibly by hackers with Russian ties, who attempted to auction the malware online.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The newly discovered malware uses GitHub and Pastebin to house component code, and harbors 12 different initial attack vectors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

BitDefender Mobile Security feature assists customers in protecting against malware spread and phishing scams. From then, the company has been offering antivirus software, multi-cloud security, extended detection and response and anti-virus and IoT protection.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In November, researchers at AT&T discovered a new BotenaGo botnet that was using thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices, including one for the above RCE. Another older issue added to the catalog is CVE-2020-0796 vulnerability in SMBv3 protocol that could be exploited by vxers to implement “wormable” malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

The Cyclops Blink malware has been active since at least June 2019, it targets WatchGuard Firebox and other Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network devices. The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. India, Italy, Canada, and Russia.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The botnet was able to exploit an older vulnerability in unpatched EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controllers (ESBCs) that is tracked as CVE-2017-6079. Once inside the appliances, the botnet installed a modular malware strain that the Netlab researchers dubbed EwDoor. Further reading: Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 76,551 unique users. Financial threats Financial threat statistics In Q3 2023, Kaspersky solutions blocked the launch of at least one piece of banking malware on the computers of 76,551 unique users. 2 Turkmenistan 3.5 3 China 2.4

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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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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. 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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

According to the Cybersecurity Ventures’ cybercrime statistics 2017 cybercrime damages will amount to a staggering $6 trillion annually starting in 2021. 7 million in 2017 to a new high of US$13. According to Accenture, malware and Web-based attacks continue to cause higher financial losses to organizations worldwide.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2023

During an incident response performed by Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team ( GERT ) and GReAT, we uncovered a novel multiplatform threat named “NKAbuse” The malware utilizes NKN technology for data exchange between peers, functioning as a potent implant, and equipped with both flooder and backdoor capabilities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Researchers noticed that malware authors have added multiple exploits for over 10 different web applications and the SMB protocol. Talos experts noticed that a version released on May 18 included Python versions of EternalBlue ( CVE-2017-0144 ) and EternalRomance ( CVE-2017-0147 ) exploits with a Windows download command line as the payload.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Kaye made a name for himself as the developer and seller of the GovRAT malware that his “customers” used to hack U.S. ’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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The Boa web server is widely used across a variety of devices, including IoT devices, and is often used to access settings and management consoles as well as sign-in screens. The experts pointed out that Boa has been discontinued since 2005. ”reads the report published by Recorded Future. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

Uptycs’ threat research team recently detected several variants of the Linux-based botnet malware family, “ Gafgyt ,”some of them re-used Mirai code. . Gafgyt (also known as Bashlite) is a prominent malware family for *nix systems, which mainly target vulnerable IoT devices like Huawei routers, Realtek routers and ASUS devices.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kaye launched the attack using a botnet powered by Mirai , a malware strain that enslaves hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices like poorly-secured Internet routers and Web-based cameras for use in large-scale cyberattacks. Daniel Kaye , an Israel-U.K. to face charges there.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

— were each sentenced to five years probation, 2,500 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $127,000 in restitution for the damage caused by their malware. Not long after Mirai first surfaced online in August 2016, White and Jha were questioned by the FBI about their suspected role in developing the malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The news is not surprising, unfortunately in many cases IoT devices, including IP cameras, are deployed without proper security measures. In 2017, thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by the Persirai IoT botnet that targeted more than 1,000 IP camera models. ” continues the article.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

“Check Point’s researchers showed how a threat actor could exploit an IoT network (smart lightbulbs and their control bridge) to launch attacks on conventional computer networks in homes, businesses or even smart cities.” The malware could move laterally and infect other systems in the target network.

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