A Mirai-based botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' is exploiting a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in QNAP VioStor NVR (Network Video Recorder) devices to hijack and make them part of its DDoS (distributed denial of service) swarm.
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Cado Security Labs has been monitoring on the rapid growth of a cross-platform botnet, named “P2Pinfect”. Here's the latest updates.
Akamai SIRT has uncovered two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited to spread a Mirai variant in the wild.
A Russian and Moldovan national pled guilty to three counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A) Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers.
The FBI today revealed US law enforcement’s dismantlement of a botnet proxy network and its infrastructure associated with the IPStorm malware.
According to online reports, the botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac, and Android devices, victimizing computers and other electronic devices around the world, including in Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
Researchers speculate that Chinese authorities may be responsible for turning off one of the internet’s most prolific IoT botnets.
Facebook’s Messenger platform has been heavily abused in the past month to spread endless messages with malicious attachments from a swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts. These threat actors are targeting millions of business accounts on Facebook’s platform — from highly-rated marketplace sellers to large corporations, with fake business inquiries, achieving a staggering “success rate” with approximately 1 out of 70 infected!
Qakbot, one of the largest and longest-running botnets to date, was taken down following a multinational law enforcement operation spearheaded by the FBI and known as Operation 'Duck Hunt.'
Tomcat Vulnerability explore some of the techniques used by the Mirai botnet to exploit a single attack directed at one of our Apache Tomcat honeypots.
Since at least May 2021, stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon was used to infect over 70,000 Linux-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers and add them to a botnet designed to steal bandwidth and provide a hidden residential proxy service.
FortiGuard Labs encountered recent samples of a DDoS-as-a-service botnet calling itself Condi. It attempted to spread by exploiting TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers vulnerable to CVE-2023-1389, which was disclosed in mid-March of this year. Read more.
The high-profile botnet, focused on mining cryptocurrency, is back with new Linux versions.
New Golang-based malware we have dubbed GoBruteforcer targets web servers. Golang is becoming popular with malware programmers due to its versatility.
As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless.
Raspberry Robin appears to be a type of Pay-Per-Install botnet, likely to be used by cybercriminals to distribute other malware.
FortiGuard Labs encountered an unreported CMS scanner and brute forcer written in the Go programming language. Read our analysis of the malware and how this active botnet scans and compromises websites.
FortiGuardLabs examines a botnet known as Zerobot written in the Go language targeting IoT vulnerabilities. Read our blog to learn about how it evolves, including self-replication, attacks for different protocols, and self-propagation as well as its behavior once inside an infected device.
Background
On April 13, 2022, 360Netlab first disclosed the Fodcha botnet. After our
article was published, Fodcha suffered a crackdown from the relevant
authorities, and its authors quickly responded by leaving "Netlab pls leave me
alone I surrender" in an updated sample.No surprise, Fodcha's authors didn't
really stop updating after the fraudulent surrender, and soon a new version was
released.
In the new version, the authors of Fodcha redesigned the communication protocol
and started to us
Trustwave SpiderLabs’ spam traps have identified an increase in threats packaged in password-protected archives with about 96% of these being spammed by the Emotet Botnet. In the first half of 2022, we identified password-protected ZIP files as the third most popular archive format used by cybercriminals to conceal malware.
End of June 2021, Qrator Labs started to see signs of a new assaulting force on the Internet – a botnet of a new kind. That is a joint research we conducted together with Yandex to elaborate on the specifics of the DDoS attacks enabler emerging in almost real-time.
DGA is one of the classic techniques for botnets to hide their C2s, attacker
only needs to selectively register a very small number of C2 domains, while for
the defenders, it is difficult to determine in advance which domain names will
be generated and registered.
In June 2022, FortiGuard Labs encountered IoT malware samples with SSH-related strings, something not often seen in other IoT threat campaigns. What piqued our interest more was the size of the code referencing these strings in relation to the code used for DDoS attacks, which usually comprises most of the code in other variants.
Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the "RSOCKS" botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as "proxies" to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious…
May 2022 Investigative Report Release: Nisos analysts determined that Fronton is a system developed for coordinated inauthentic behavior on a massive scale. Read more.
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Observing a 254% increase in activity over the last six months from a versatile Linux trojan called XorDdos, the Microsoft 365 Defender research team provides in-depth analysis into this stealthy malware's capabilities and key infection signs.
In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covers the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 is a deep dive on the attacker behavior and will provide investigation guidance.
FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet, which means its command and control server is not limited to a single, centralized machine, but rather can be done from every machine in its distributed network. In other words, every host running the malware process becomes part of the network, and is capable of sending, receiving, and executing the commands to control machines in the network.