Necurs Botnet in Crosshairs of Global Takedown Offensive

A New York State court issued an order this week giving Microsoft control of the U.S.-based infrastructure used by the notorious Necurs botnet in an effort to stop the world’s most prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware infrastructure. The move came after Microsoft and partners across 3...

Microsoft Hijacks Necurs Botnet that Infected 9 Million PCs Worldwide

Microsoft today announced that it has successfully disrupted the botnet network of the Necurs malware, which has infected more than 9 million computers globally, and also hijacked the majority of its infrastructure. The latest botnet takedown was the result of a coordinated operation involving...

Microsoft Hijacks Necurs Botnet that Infected 9 Million PCs Worldwide

Microsoft today announced that it has successfully disrupted the botnet network of the Necurs malware, which has infected more than 9 million computers globally, and also hijacked the majority of its infrastructure. The latest botnet takedown was the result of a coordinated operation involving...

PT-2020-1852

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ZyXEL NAS326 versions prior to V5.21AAZF.7C0 ZyXEL NAS520 versions prior to V5.21AASZ.3C0 ZyXEL NAS540 versions prior to V5.21AATB.4C0 ZyXEL NAS542 versions prior to V5.21ABAG.4C0 ZyXEL NSA210 affected versions not specified ZyXEL NSA220...

AZORult spreads as a fake ProtonVPN installer

AZORult has its history. However, a few days ago, we discovered what appears to be one of its most unusual campaigns: abusing the ProtonVPN service and dropping malware via fake ProtonVPN installers for Windows. Screenshot of a fake ProtonVPN website The campaign started at the end of November 20...

As Necurs Botnet Falls from Grace, Emotet Rises

A mid-January spam campaign by criminals behind the popular Necurs botnet shows a dramatic drop in skill and savvy by perpetrators. In a shift from sending sophisticated messages with lethal payloads, Necurs botnets are now peddling get-rich-quick spam messages in what researchers are calling...

New Muhstik Botnet Attacks Target Tomato Routers

A new variant of the Muhstik botnet has appeared, this time with scanner technology that for the first time can brute-force web authentication to attack routers using Tomato open-source firmware, researchers have found. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 discovered the new variant...

Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices

A hacker has published a list of credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers and other Internet of Things IoT devices online on a popular hacking forum in what’s being touted as the biggest leak of Telnet passwords to date, according to a published report. The leak—revealed in a repor...

Top 10 IoT Disasters of 2019

IoT Disasters 2019 Though more light was shed around insecure Internet of Things IoT devices in 2019 – consequently leading to more calls for regulation– connected devices themselves seemingly stayed just as insecure. From privacy concerns in smart home devices, to botnets evolving to launch...

Threat Roundup for December 13 to December 20

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Dec. 13 and Dec. 20. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

14 Ways to Evade Botnet Malware Attacks On Your Computers

Cybercriminals are busy innovators, adapting their weapons and attack strategies, and ruthlessly roaming the web in search of their next big score. Every manner of sensitive information, such as confidential employee records, customers' financial data, protected medical documents, and government...

14 Ways to Evade Botnet Malware Attacks On Your Computers

Cybercriminals are busy innovators, adapting their weapons and attack strategies, and ruthlessly roaming the web in search of their next big score. Every manner of sensitive information, such as confidential employee records, customers' financial data, protected medical documents, and government...

Echobot IoT Botnet Casts a Wide Net with Raft of Exploit Additions

A variant of the Mirai Internet of Things IoT botnet known as “Echobot” has added 13 more vulnerability exploits to its bag of infiltration tricks, according to researchers. These target a range of devices, including routers, firewalls, IP cameras, server management utilities, a programmable logi...

VMware Carbon Black TAU Malware Analysis: Tofsee Botnet Resurfaces

Tofsee is a botnet which has not been reported on since the following analysis in September of 2016 by the Cert Polka team and Cisco Talos. This updated campaign employs new techniques in order to aggressively send large volumes of spam emails primarily targeting the adult dating scene. This new...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Tofsee Botnet

Tofsee is a botnet which has not been reported on since the following analysis in September of 2016 by the Cert Polka team and Cisco Talos. This updated campaign employs new techniques in order to aggressively send large volumes of spam emails primarily targeting the adult dating scene. This new...

Amazon's Blink Smart Security Cameras Open to Hijack

Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities have been discovered in Amazon-owned Blink XT2 security camera systems, which if exploited could give attackers complete control over them. The internet of things IoT cameras not to be confused with the Blink open-source browser engine, consist of a wireless...

Botnet found using YouTube to illegally mine cryptocurrency

By Sudais This time again, hackers have been found mining a popular yet anonymized cryptocurrency. Read more to know what these hackers are up to... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Botnet found using YouTube to illegally mine cryptocurrency...

Linux Webmin Servers Under Attack by Roboto P2P Botnet

Vulnerable Linux Webmin servers are under active attack by a newly-discovered peer-to-peer P2P botnet, dubbed Roboto by researchers. The botnet is targeting a remote code-execution vulnerability CVE-2019-15107 in Webmin, a web-based system configuration tool for Linux servers. CVE-2019-15107 was...

Lizard Squad Threatens UK's Labour Leader with Cyberattacks Against His Family

Lizard Squad, the well-known hacktivist cybergang, is pledging to mount personal cyberattacks on Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. As the UK continues to be roiled by Brexit debate ahead of a Dec. 12 general election, the Labour Party said on Tuesday that it had been targeted by a...

APT33 Mounts Focused, Highly Targeted Botnet Attacks Against U.S. Victims

The Iran-linked, espionage-focused advanced threat group known as APT33 has been spotted using more than a dozen obfuscated botnets to carry out narrowly targeted attacks against government and academic targets in the Middle East, the U.S. and Asia. Each botnet, linked to its own...