An adware and coin-miner botnet targeting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan at least since 2012 has now set its sights on Linux servers to fly under the radar. According to a new analysis published by Intezer today and shared with The Hacker News, the trojan masquerades as HTTPd, a commonly used program on Linux servers, and is a new version of the malware belonging to a … [Read more...] about Stantinko Botnet Now Targeting Linux Servers to Hide Behind Proxies
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KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms
An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems (CMS). The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for popular CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!, PrestaShop, Magneto, Drupal, … [Read more...] about KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms
Microsoft and Other Tech Companies Take Down TrickBot Botnet
Days after the US Government took steps to disrupt the notorious TrickBot botnet, a group of cybersecurity and tech companies has detailed a separate coordinated effort to take down the malware's back-end infrastructure. The joint collaboration, which involved Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, ESET, Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis … [Read more...] about Microsoft and Other Tech Companies Take Down TrickBot Botnet
ALERT! Hackers targeting IoT devices with a new P2P botnet malware
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining. Discovered by Qihoo 360's Netlab security team, the HEH Botnet — written in Go language and armed with a proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, spreads via a brute-force … [Read more...] about ALERT! Hackers targeting IoT devices with a new P2P botnet malware
A New Fileless P2P Botnet Malware Targeting SSH Servers Worldwide
Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off a sophisticated, multi-functional peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet written in Golang that has been actively targeting SSH servers since January 2020.Called "FritzFrog," the modular, multi-threaded and file-less botnet has breached more than 500 servers to date, infecting well-known universities in the US and Europe, and a railway … [Read more...] about A New Fileless P2P Botnet Malware Targeting SSH Servers Worldwide
Prometei botnet and its quest for Monero
Attackers are constantly reinventing ways of monetizing their tools. Cisco Talos recently discovered a complex campaign employing a multi-modular botnet with multiple ways to spread and a payload focused on providing financial benefits for the attacker by mining the Monero online currency. The actor employs various methods to spread across the network, like SMB with stolen … [Read more...] about Prometei botnet and its quest for Monero
‘Satori’ IoT DDoS Botnet Operator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
The United States Department of Justice yesterday sentenced a 22-year-old Washington-based hacker to 13 months in federal prison for his role in creating botnet malware, infecting a large number of systems with it, and then abusing those systems to carry out large scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against various online service and targets.According to court … [Read more...] about ‘Satori’ IoT DDoS Botnet Operator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers
A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent people.Extortion by email is growing significantly, with a large number of users recently complaining about receiving sextortion … [Read more...] about Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers
Smominru botnet attacks outdated Windows systems with EternalBlue
Active since 2017, Smominru has now become one of the most rapidly spreading computer malware, according to a publicly available report. In 2019, during August alone, it infected 90,000 machines worldwide, with an infection rate of up to 4,700 сcomputers per day. China, Taiwan, Russia, Brazil, and the US have seen the most attacks, but that doesn’t mean other countries are out … [Read more...] about Smominru botnet attacks outdated Windows systems with EternalBlue
Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month
Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well.Smominru, an infamous cryptocurrency-mining and credential-stealing botnet, has become one of the rapidly … [Read more...] about Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month