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Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

million servers running the RPCBIND service from being used in amplified DDoS attacks. The data showed that a DDoS attack was in progress, coming from port 111 of several servers, all from other countries. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Securi ty Affairs – Oracle, DDoS).

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

An advertisement for Orcus RAT. The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product.

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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

Security Affairs

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

An advertisement for Orcus RAT. Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe. 2017 analysis of the RAT. Meanwhile on Hackforums[.]net

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com.

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New Linux/DDosMan threat emerged from an evolution of the older Elknot

Security Affairs

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. Figure 2: The C2 software for Linux DDoS.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

The company has also used security information for advertising in the past.). Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities. These phone numbers are publicly accessible by default, and users have no way of opting out once they’ve provided them.

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