Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

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. “They were clearly reacting and trying to maintain control over components of the botnet,” Adamitis said.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Mirai botnet starts exploiting the recently disclosed OMIGOD vulnerability to compromise vulnerable systems exposed online. Threat actors behind a Mirai botnet starts exploiting a critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-38647, a few days after Microsoft disclosed them. ” reads a Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet continues to spread despite the arrest of its alleged author and experts believe that it will run for many other years. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. One botnet down more to go.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. March 18 – Russia-linked Cyclops Blink botnet targeting ASUS routers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

She previously hosted even TrickBot "red" group tag payload on her own website -> see URLhaus [link] [link] pic.twitter.com/qG977wjgLN — Vitali Kremez (@VK_Intel) June 4, 2021. The TrickBot botnet was also used to distribute Ryuk and Conti ransomware onto the network of corporate targets.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Anonymous leaked 15 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian Orthodox Church UK Police charges two teenagers for their alleged role in the Lapsus$ extortion group Beastmode Mirai botnet now includes exploits for Totolink routers Ukraine intelligence leaks names of 620 alleged Russian FSB agents Critical CVE-2022-1162 flaw in GitLab allowed threat (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

CISA warns of actively exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw CVE-2023-35082 The Quantum Computing Cryptopocalypse – I’ll Know It When I See It Kansas State University suffered a serious cybersecurity incident CISA adds Chrome and Citrix NetScaler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Google TAG warns that Russian COLDRIVER APT is using a custom backdoor (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

LockBit ransomware group claims to have hacked Bridgestone Americas Attackers use website contact forms to spread BazarLoader malware Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram Ubisoft suffered a cyber security incident that caused a temporary disruption Anonymous hacked Roskomnadzor agency revealing Russian disinformation Open (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In October, Microsoft’s Defender team, FS-ISAC , ESET , Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs , NTT , and Broadcom’s cyber-security division Symantec joined the forces and announced a coordinated effort to take down the command and control infrastructure of the infamous TrickBot botnet. This technique was also implemented by the Bazar backdoor.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2023

Encrypted code in earlier versions of Xloader and Formbook This code starts with the well-known function preamble push ebp / mov ebp, esp, followed by a tag identifying the encrypted code (0x49909090 in Figure 2), the encrypted code, and an ending tag 0x90909090. In Xloader version 2.9, In Xloader version 4.3,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

.” Google researchers pointed out that the attack they mitigated was four times larger than the 623 Gbps attack launched from the Mirai botnet in 2016. A report published by the Google Threat Threat Analysis Group (TAG) speculates that the attack was carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

When preparing to launch a targeted attack, the experienced adversary will take into account the defensive measures the target has, the software being used by the target, and the resources available to the adversary to execute the attack, such as botnet capacity. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“Clips from the hacked footage have been uploaded on pornographic sites recently, with several explicitly tagged as being from Singapore.” In 2017, thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by the Persirai IoT botnet that targeted more than 1,000 IP camera models. ” reported The New Paper.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

” A review of Majidi’s Facebook profile shows that phrase as his tag line, and that he has signed several of his posts over the years as “Fatal.001.” The main control screen for the Little Boy botnet interface includes a map of Morocco. In this two-hour Arabic language YouTube tutorial from 2014 , Fatal.001

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

Another interesting aspect of the campaign is that It was powered by the Necurs botnet. It also appeared to originate from the Necurs botnet, a notorious botnet responsible for much mass malware distribution in the past,” reads the analysis published by Trustwave. This campaign was unusual in the use of.pub files. ” .

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But also includes rich context on Malware Type such as infostealers , backdoors , and botnets as well as adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures such as evasion. These obviously help paint a better picture of the threat and are accessed largely through what we call “system tags” (the blue ones).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2021

HUMAN worked with CTV industry leaders Google and Roku on the discovery and disruption of the ‘ PARETO ’ CTV botnet—a sophisticated botnet that accounted for an average of 650 million ad requests every day.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

On the more colorful side of DDoS is the the classic Smurf DDoS attack, named after the DDoS.Smurf malware found on the infected zombie machines that form the botnets used in the attack. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! In our next episode of Ask a Security Professional, we’ll be talking about Volumetric DDoS Attacks.

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SecureList

JULY 25, 2022

Specifically, a number of code patterns featured in CosmicStrand were also observed in another malware family, the MyKings botnet (e.g., This botnet, used to deploy cryptominers, was documented by Sophos in 2020 where they noted the presence of several Chinese-language artifacts. MD5 E31C43DD8CB17E9D68C65E645FB3F6E8 ).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This type of malware attack is called a botnet attack. To put in simple terms, it refers to the process of providing a web application with JavaScript tags on input. The hacker exploited the vulnerability and used these IoT devices to launch a massive attack on social media platforms. The purpose of the questionable input might differ.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A file that attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper.PNG format loads a PHP web shell in compromised sites by replacing the legitimate shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake.PNG file. 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

You can group by malware family, malware tags, and C2 ASNs. Summary intelligence provides the relative prominence of the malware based upon volume of detonations and correlates additional information to get a high-level perspective on the malware family, tag, or C2 ASN. You know, the malware families, the botnets, the TTPs, and so on?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2023

It's in this capacity that VASTFLUX behaves most like a botnet; when an ad slot is hijacked, it renders sequences of ads the user can’t see or interact with." It does this by avoiding using ad verification tags, which is a piece of technology that allows marketers to check whether their ads have been seen by real people or not.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In most of the large-scale cases we see these days, coordinating a DDoS attack starts with building a botnet , a network of computers amassed most often from malware-infected personal computers being remotely-controlled (dubbed zombies) , turning innocent bystanders into involuntary assailants in the attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

All of these Internet providers had one thing in common: They specialized in cultivating customers who used their networks for nefarious purposes — from operating botnets and spamming to hosting malware. ” The person responding to my Skype messages said they bought most of their proxies from a reseller at customproxysolutions[.]com,

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Armis was acquired at a $1 billion price tag by Insight Partners in January 2020, joining Insight’s other cybersecurity subsidiaries like SentinelOne, Perimeter81, Mimecast, and Tenable. Armis’ solutions include cybersecurity asset management, OT security, ICS risk assessment, zero trust , and more. Armis Features.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Administrators can group traffic by container , team, or office and filter data by tag, device, or host. Kentik’s solutions can protect core, edge, and cloud networks while adding DDoS and botnet protection, supply chain analytics, and synthetics.

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Elie

AUGUST 31, 2017

As a result, it is no longer possible to rely on one of the most effective tactics against botnets: shutting down the control site. This was a titanesque task as there were 34 families (as shown in the tag cloud above) and hundreds of variants. These rules allowed us to collect an initial dataset of around 154.000 ransomware binaries.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Building new botnets with consumer and corporate software and appliances It is a well-known fact: vulnerabilities persist in commonly used software and appliances, whether for corporate or personal use. Creating a botnet involves stealthy installation of malware on a multitude of devices without the device owners’ knowledge.

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