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Blast from the past: stowaway Virut delivered with Chinese DDoS bot
Recently, we described an unusual Chinese drive-by attack that was delivering a variant of the Avzhan DDoS bot. The attack also contained multiple components that were not-so-new. Among the exploits, the newest was from 2016. Avzhan is also not a recent malware—the compilation timestamp of the...
A week in security (February 19 – February 25)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we gave readers a primer on encryption, took a stab at that Deepfakes tool Internet users seem to be interested in, and started a new series that talks about GDPR. We also looked at a drive-by download campaign that starts in booby-trapped Chinese websites that dro...
Avzhan DDoS bot dropped by Chinese drive-by attack
The Avzhan DDoS bot has been known since 2010, but recently we saw it in wild again, being dropped by a Chinese drive-by attack. In this post, we'll take a deep dive into its functionality and compare the sample we captured with the one described in the past. Analyzed sample...
swap-bot.com XSS vulnerability
Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-488492 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| swap-bot.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Disclosure Standard:| Coordinated Disclosure based ...
A state of constant uncertainty or uncertain constancy? Fast flux explained
Last August, WireX made headlines. For one thing, it was dubbed the first-known DDoS botnet that used the Android platform. For another, it used a technique that—for those who have been around in the industry for quite a while now—rung familiar in the ears: fast flux. In the context of...
Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue (Andromeda)
Today, with help from Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies around the globe, in cooperation with Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit DCU, announced the disruption of Gamarue, a widely distributed malware that has been used in networks of infected computers collectively called the...
Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue (Andromeda)
Today, with help from Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies around the globe, in cooperation with Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit DCU, announced the disruption of Gamarue, a widely distributed malware that has been used in networks of infected computers collectively called the...
Check Point Gaia Operating System HTTP evasion protection failure (sk98814)
The remote host is running a version of Gaia OS which is affected by an issue where protections in the following components may fail under specific HTTP evasions : - IPS - Application Control - URL Filtering - Anti-Virus - Anti-Bot - Threat Emulation C Tenable Network Security, Inc...
Good Bots In. Bad Bots Out.
More than half of Internet traffic today comes from bots. These non-human visitors crawl the web constantly, their numbers are increasing, and they are getting smarter and more human-like by the minute. Imperva has been tracking these trends for more than five years, in an ongoing statistical stu...
Disdain exploit kit and a side of social engineering deliver Neutrino Bot
Today we picked up new activity from an exploit kit that was first discovered back in August of this year. The Disdain exploit kit, simply identified by a string of the same name found in its source code, is being distributed again after a short interruption via malvertising chains. Disdain EK...
Low Resource Defeat of reCaptcha’s Audio Challenge: unCaptcha
Across the Internet, hundreds of thousands of sites rely on Google’s reCaptcha system for defense against bots in fact, Devpost uses reCaptcha when creating a new account. After a Google research team demonstrated a near complete defeat of the text reCaptcha in 2012, the reCaptcha system evolved ...
Yelp: Leaking sensitive information lead to compromise employer API keys
The configuration file of an internal IRC bot which included credentials to internal services and some external services used by Yelp developers was inadvertently included by an employee in a personal public GitHub repository. The repository was taken down and the affected credentials rotated...
IDN Homograph Attack Spreading Betabot Backdoor
An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with the malicious site spreading the Betabot backdoor and ultimately infecting compromised machines with cryptocurrency-mining and data-stealing malware. Attacks using internationalized domain name homographs rely on users...
Wallarm to sponsor OWASP AppSec USA
If you are a SecOps or DevOps professional you can not miss the application security event of the year: AppSec USA, September 19–22nd at Disney Coronado Spring Resort, Orlando, FL Use the code: UNLM50WLLRM to register to get $50 discount. You will get great information on the new security tools a...
kgb-bot denial of service vulnerability
kgb-bot is an Internet Relay Chat package. A security vulnerability exists in kgb-bot version 1.33-2. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service crash...
CVE-2015-1554
kgb-bot 1.33-2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash...
CVE-2015-1554
kgb-bot 1.33-2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash...
DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1554
kgb-bot 1.33-2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash...
