Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Aqua Nautilus researchers have uncovered a major Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) campaign led by a threat actor operating under the name Matrix.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A new multifunctional Go-based malware dubbed Chaos is targeting both Windows and Linux systems, experts warn. Researchers from Black Lotus Labs at Lumen Technologies, recently uncovered a multifunctional Go-based malware that was developed to target devices based on multiple architectures, including Windows and Linux.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine (CERT-UA) reported that a PurpleFox malware campaign had already infected at least 2,000 computers in the country. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. ” reads the alert published by CERT-UA.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Microsoft revealed that Ukrainian entities were targeted with a previous undetected malware, dubbed FoxBlade, several hours before the invasion. “This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.” ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The botnet was first discovered by Fortinet in March, the DDoS botnet targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. Experts pointed out that the malware is being actively developed.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Experts uncovered a new Go-based multi-platform malware, tracked as NKAbuse, which is the first malware abusing NKN technology. Researchers from Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team ( GERT ) and GReAT uncovered a new multiplatform malware dubbed NKAbuse. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 At the time, Jha was president and co-founder of ProTraf Solutions , a DDoS mitigation firm that provided just such a service. After the Sept.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The botnet was linked to a new malware hosting domain that has been serving Mirai variants for several different botnets over the past year. This payload contains the logic to change the execution path to a temporary location, wget a file from a malware hosting page, provide execution permissions, and execute it.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

According to ZDNet that first published the news, the list was leaked on a popular hacking forum by the operator of a DDoS booter service. “As ZDNet understands, the list was published online by the maintainer of a DDoS-for-hire (DDoS booter ) service.” ” reported ZDNet. ” reported ZDNet.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

AT&T is working to stop a botnet that has infected at least 5,700 network edge servers inside its networks and appears designed to steal sensitive information and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Once inside the appliances, the botnet installed a modular malware strain that the Netlab researchers dubbed EwDoor.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In 2012 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about the plight of Yuriy “Jtk” Konovalenko , a then 30-year-old Ukrainian man who was rounded up as part of an international crackdown on an organized crime gang that used the ZeuS malware to steal tens of millions of dollars from companies and consumers. Attorney Adam Alexander.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The attackers are targeting Edgewater Networks’ devices by exploiting the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability with a relatively unique mount file system command. The bot supports the following functions: Self updating Port scanning File management DDoS attack Reverse SHELL Execute arbitrary commands. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

A new Golang-based DDoS botnet, tracked as HinataBot, targets routers and servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Akamai researchers spotted a new DDoS Golang-based botnet, dubbed HinataBot, which has been observed exploiting known flaws to compromise routers and servers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

Uptycs’ threat research team recently detected several variants of the Linux-based botnet malware family, “ Gafgyt ,”some of them re-used Mirai code. . Gafgyt (also known as Bashlite) is a prominent malware family for *nix systems, which mainly target vulnerable IoT devices like Huawei routers, Realtek routers and ASUS devices.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any unwanted software on your computer that, more often than not, is designed to inflict damage. Since the early days of computing, a wide range of malware types with varying functions have emerged. Best Practices to Defend Against Malware. Jump ahead: Adware. RAM scraper.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2022

From March this year, Moscow indulged in disinformation spread, DDoS attacks on Ukraine and other hacktivists related campaigns. But it did not achieve noted success by doing so and probably intensified the attacks with wiper malware. But in real, their computer network is holding wiper software that can erase the information anytime.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnet , including Satori. Kenneth Currin Schuchman (21) from Vancouver, Washington, aka Nexus Zeta, pleaded guilty to creating and operating multiple DDoS IoT botnets.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Zerobot operators are offering the botnet as a malware-as-a-service model, one domain (zerostresser[.]com) com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity as DEV-1061.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Researchers noticed that malware authors have added multiple exploits for over 10 different web applications and the SMB protocol. Talos experts noticed that a version released on May 18 included Python versions of EternalBlue ( CVE-2017-0144 ) and EternalRomance ( CVE-2017-0147 ) exploits with a Windows download command line as the payload.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. “Both PurpleFox and DirtyMoe are still active malware and gaining strength.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. Securi ty Affairs – Mirai botnet, malware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A new variant of the Mirai-based Medusa DDoS (distributed denial of service) botnet has been discovered in the wild, equipped with a ransomware module and a Telnet brute-forcer.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 20, 2024

.” Discovered in May 2024, this Golang-based threat exhibits advanced features beyond typical DDoS capabilities, including proxying, scanning, self-upgrades, persistence mechanisms, and exfiltration... The post Zergeca Botnet Exposed: Advanced Capabilities Beyond DDoS appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2022

Operators behind the Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) added exploits for Totolink routers. The Mirai -based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) now includes exploits for Totolink routers. CVE-2017-17215 targets Huawei HG532 routers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. reads the analysis published by the experts. ” continues the analysis.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

This week, the Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

There’s a lot of buzz going around in many online communities concerning the recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks the world has witnessed. In Part One we’re going to look at the differences between a denial of service (DoS) and a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Photo credit US Army Spc.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

AT&T Alien Labs™ has found new malware written in the open source programming language Golang. The malware creates a backdoor and waits to either receive a target to attack from a remote operator through port 19412 or from another related module running on the same machine. VirusTotal scanning results of BotenaGo malware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Botnet operators monetize their efforts via XMRig, cgmining and with DDoS-for-hire services. . The bot includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2017-10271 , and the Drupal RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7600. In the first stage of the attack, a payload downloads the other components.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

USB removable storage devices are the main vector for malware attacks against industrial facilities, states Honeywell report. According to a report published on by Honeywell, malware-based attacks against industrial facilities mostly leverage USB removable storage devices. ” states the report. ” continues the report.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2023

During an incident response performed by Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team ( GERT ) and GReAT, we uncovered a novel multiplatform threat named “NKAbuse” The malware utilizes NKN technology for data exchange between peers, functioning as a potent implant, and equipped with both flooder and backdoor capabilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2019

According to the researchers, in the last months, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks, experts also noticed that the sample borrows part of code from the Gafgyt malware. The malware spreads by attempting to guess Telnet passwords of target devices and leveraging known exploits. Pierluigi Paganini.

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