New Sysrv-k Botnet Infecting Windows and Linux Systems with Cryptominer

By Deeba Ahmed Microsoft has discovered a new Sysrv botnet variant deploying cryptocurrency miners on Windows and Linux systems. The Microsoft… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Sysrv-k Botnet Infecting Windows and Linux Systems with Cryptominer...

Sysrv-K Botnet Targets Windows, Linux

Unpatched vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins are being exploited by cybercriminals behind the Sysrv botnet to target Linux and Windows systems. The goal, according to researchers, is to infect systems with cryptomining malware. The botnet variant is being called Sysrv-K...

Ukrainian Hacker Jailed for 4-Years in U.S. for Selling Access to Hacked Servers

A 28-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for siphoning thousands of server login credentials and selling them on the dark web for monetary gain as part of a credential theft scheme. Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, who pleaded guilty to his offenses earlier thi...

New Sophisticated Malware

Mandiant is reporting on a new botnet. The group, which security firm Mandiant is calling UNC3524, has spent the past 18 months burrowing into victims networks with unusual stealth. In cases where the group is ejected, it wastes no time reinfecting the victim environment and picking up where thin...

New Hacker Group Pursuing Corporate Employees Focused on Mergers and Acquisitions

A newly discovered suspected espionage threat actor has been targeting employees focusing on mergers and acquisitions as well as large corporate transactions to facilitate bulk email collection from victim environments. Mandiant is tracking the activity cluster under the uncategorized moniker...

Cloudflare Thwarts Record DDoS Attack Peaking at 15 Million Requests Per Second

Cloudflare on Wednesday disclosed that it acted to mitigate a 15.3 million request-per-second RPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack. The web infrastructure and website security company called it one of the "largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record." "HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in...

New BotenaGo Malware Variant Targeting Lilin Security Camera DVR Devices

A new variant of an IoT botnet called BotenaGo has emerged in the wild, specifically singling out Lilin security camera DVR devices to infect them with Mirai malware. Dubbed "Lilin Scanner" by Nozomi Networks, the latest version is designed to exploit a two-year-old critical command injection...

LemonDuck Cryptomining Botnet Hunting for Misconfigured Docker APIs

By Deeba Ahmed LemonDuck cryptomining botnet previously targeted Microsoft Exchange servers. Now it is targeting the worlds leading containerization platform, Docker.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LemonDuck Cryptomining Botnet Hunting for Misconfigured Docker APIs...

Watch Out! Cryptocurrency Miners Targeting Dockers, AWS and Alibaba Cloud

LemonDuck, a cross-platform cryptocurrency mining botnet, is targeting Docker to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems as part of an active malware campaign. "It runs an anonymous mining operation by the use of proxy pools, which hide the wallet addresses," CrowdStrike said in a new report. "It...

A week in security (April 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Credential-stealing malware disguises itself as Telegram, targets social media users Old Play Store apps served notice by upcoming API level changes Denonia cryptominer is first malware to target AWS Lambda Ransomware: March 2022 review Why identity management...

Zloader, another botnet, bites the dust

Microsoft has announced that its Digital Crimes Unit DCU has taken legal and technical action to disrupt a malicious botnet called Zloader. Zloader or Zbot are common names used to refer to any malware related to the ZeuS family. There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source cod...

Microsoft Disrupts ZLoader Cybercrime Botnet in Global Operation

Microsoft and a consortium of cybersecurity companies took legal and technical steps to disrupt the ZLoader botnet, seizing control of 65 domains that were used to control and communicate with the infected hosts. "ZLoader is made up of computing devices in businesses, hospitals, schools, and home...

RCE Spring Framework Zero-Day vulnerability “Spring4Shell”

THREAT LEVEL: Red For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in the Spring framework, a Java framework that provides infrastructure support for web application development. This vulnerability came to light after a Chinese researcher made a...

Hackers Exploiting Spring4Shell Vulnerability to Deploy Mirai Botnet Malware

The recently disclosed critical Spring4Shell vulnerability is being actively exploited by threat actors to execute the Mirai botnet malware, particularly in the Singapore region since the start of April 2022. "The exploitation allows threat actors to download the Mirai sample to the '/tmp' folder...

Successful operations against Russian Sandworm and Strontium groups targeting Ukraine revealed

The US Department of Justice DoJ and Microsoft have taken the sting out of two operations believed to be controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate GRU. On Wednesday, the DOJ announced that it had disrupted GRU’s control over thousands of internet-connected firewall...

CVE-2022-22965: Analyzing the Exploitation of Spring4Shell Vulnerability in Weaponizing and Executing the Mirai Botnet Malware

We discovered active exploitation of a vulnerability in the Spring Framework designated as CVE-2022-22965 that allows malicious actors to download the Mirai botnet malware...

US Disrupts Russian Botnet

The Justice Department announced the disruption of a Russian GRU-controlled botnet: The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network hardware devices under the control of a threat...

FBI Shut Down Russia-linked "Cyclops Blink" Botnet That Infected Thousands of Devices

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ announced that it neutralized Cyclops Blink, a modular botnet controlled by a threat actor known as Sandworm, which has been attributed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation GRU. "The operation...

Beastmode DDoS Botnet Exploiting New TOTOLINK Bugs to Enslave More Routers

A variant of the Mirai botnet called Beastmode has been observed adopting newly disclosed vulnerabilities in TOTOLINK routers between February and March 2022 to infect unpatched devices and expand its reach potentially. "The Beastmode aka B3astmode Mirai-based DDoS campaign has aggressively updat...

Muhstik botnet adds another vulnerability exploit to its arsenal

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Muhstik malware has begun attacking Redis Servers by exploiting a recently reported vulnerability, CVE-2022-0543. This flaw can be found in several Redis Debian packages. The attack began on March 11, 2022, and was carried out...