China-Linked JDY Botnet Expands to 1,500+ Devices for Cyber Reconnaissance

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "resurgence and expansion" of JDY , a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. "The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO small office and home office and IoT devices and operates as a centrally controlled, high-performanc...

RondoDox Botnet Exploits Critical 2018 Vulnerability to Hijack ASUS Routers

Cybersecurity firm VulnCheck reveals hackers are using a critical 2018 vulnerability to bypass authentication and hack over a million ASUS routers...

CVE-2018-25117 VestaCP Debian Installer Malicious Backdoor Supply Chain Compromise

VestaCP commit a3f0fa1 2018-05-31 up to commit ee03eff 2018-06-13 contain embedded malicious code that resulted in a supply-chain compromise. New installations created from the compromised installer since at least May 2018 were subject to installation of Linux/ChachaDDoS, a multi-stage DDoS bot...

PT-2024-31512 · Byob · Byob

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: BYOB Build Your Own Botnet version 2.0 Description: An arbitrary file write issue in the exfiltration endpoint allows attackers to overwrite SQLite databases and bypass authentication via an unauthenticated HTTP request with a crafted...

New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide

Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publicly accessible Windows RDP servers on the Internet. Dubbed GoldBrute , the botnet scheme has been designed in a way to escalate gradually by adding every new...