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Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

Security Affairs

The peculiarity of this new piece of malware is the ability to communicate with C2 servers via DNS over HTTPS ( DoH ). The DoH protocol was a new standard proposed in October 2018 and it is currently supported by several publicly available DNS servers. com domain. ” states the analysis. ” states the analysis.

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Pink Botnet infected over 1.6 Million Devices, it is one of the largest botnet ever seen

Security Affairs

The number of infected devices is impressive, on 2019-11-30 a trusted security partner in the US informed Qihoo 360’s Netlab Cybersecurity reported to have observed 1,962,308 unique daily active IPs from the Pink botnet targeting its systems. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pink botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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New Mirai variant appears in the threat landscape

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The shell script downloads several Mirai binaries that were compiled for different architectures, then it executes these binaries one by one. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mirai). “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. “The IoT realm remains an easily accessible target for attackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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China-linked LightBasin group accessed calling records from telcos worldwide

Security Affairs

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. CrowdStrike researchers reported that at least 13 telecommunication companies were compromised by since 2019. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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PurpleFox botnet variant uses WebSockets for more secure C2 communication

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The payload fetched by the PowerShell targets 64-bit architecture systems, it is a long script consisting of three components: Tater (Hot Potato – privilege escalation) PowerSploit Embedded exploit bundle binary (privilege escalation). SecurityAffairs – hacking, PurpleFox botnet). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Trend Micro observed notable malware activity associated with the Momentum Botnet

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The Momentum bot targets various Linux platforms running upon multiple CPU architectures, including ARM, MIPS, Intel, and Motorola 68020. The C&C servers were live as recently as November 18 2019.” “The distribution server (as seen above) hosts the malware executables. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro.

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SOCwise Series: Practical Considerations on SUNBURST

McAfee

Below you are going to see the riveting discussion between our very own Ismael Valenzuela and Michael Leland where they’ll talk about the supply chain hacks and the premise behind them. In this case, SolarWinds knew as far back as 2018, early 2019, that they had a registration domain registered for it already.

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