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Cuttlefish malware targets enterprise-grade SOHO routers

Security Affairs

Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The malicious code can also perform DNS and HTTP hijacking within private IP spaces.

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Unveiling NKAbuse: a new multiplatform threat abusing the NKN protocol

SecureList

Written in Go, it is flexible enough to generate binaries compatible with various architectures. After the vulnerability is exploited, a command is executed on the system to download the initial script. The setup process checks the OS type and, depending on that, it downloads the second stage, which is the actual malware implant.

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

Security Affairs

The botnet leverages a robust architecture based on a combination of third-party services, P2P, and Command & Control servers. This architecture was implemented to make the botnet resilient to takedowns by law enforcement and security firms with the support of the vendors of the infected devices.

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Log4Shell Vulnerability is the Coal in our Stocking for 2021

McAfee

This includes products from internet giants such as Apple iCloud, Steam, Samsung Cloud storage, but thousands of additional products and services will likely be vulnerable. To complete this process, it will download and execute any remote classes required. To orchestrate this attack, an attacker can use several different JNDI lookups.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

The infection The first detected shellcode was located within the WININIT.EXE process, which has the ability to download binary files from bitbucket[.]org Notably, the Downloads folder, which would normally contain compiled project binaries, contains five binary files: delta.dat , delta.img , ota.dat , ota.img , and system.img.

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Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

“Since early September, SophosLabs has been monitoring an increasingly prolific attack targeting Internet-facing SSH servers on Linux-based systems that has been dropping a newly-discovered family of denial-of-service bots we’re calling Chalubo.” The IoT malware ran only on systems with an x86 architecture.

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