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Active Nitrogen campaign delivered via malicious ads for PuTTY, FileZilla

Malwarebytes

In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular system utilities. We have observed several different advertiser accounts which were all reported to Google. Click here for more information about DNS filtering via our Nebula platform.

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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. Rezvesz appears to have a flair for the dramatic , and has periodically emailed this author over the years.

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Backdoored Webmin versions were available for download for over a year

Security Affairs

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

Security Affairs

The Roboto botnet spreads by compromising systems by exploiting the Webmin RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-15107 to drop its downloader module on Linux servers running vulnerable installs. Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. An unexpected delay in network connections could mean a hardware failure, but it could also signify a hijacked DNS server.

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

Security Affairs

But if we go on the Akamai blog we can still find a reference to Elknot posted on April 4, 2016 on a topic referred to “ BillGates ”, another DDoS malware whose “ attack vectors available within the toolkit include: ICMP flood, TCP flood, UDP flood, SYN flood, HTTP Flood (Layer7) and DNS reflection floods. O"]); // for persistence.

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