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Spanish MSSP Targeted by BitPaymer Ransomware
ARCHIVED STORY Spanish MSSP Targeted by BitPaymer Ransomware By ATR Operational Intelligence Team · November 08, 2019 Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez Initial Discovery This week the news hit that several companies in Spain were hit by a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks themselves are not new...
Detecting Account Takeover Botnets
A botnet is a network of compromised computers - known as bots - usually controlled by a command and control computer, that work together in coordination for a malicious purpose. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to detect botnets used for account takeover ATO, an attack used to obtain the val...
Pwning a Smart Car Charger, Building a Botnet
…or Why We Don’t Build Commercial IoT on a Raspberry Pi. A positive story of disclosure and remediation. We’re quite into our electric vehicles at PTP, so we started hunting for a smart car charger. There are plenty of industrial chargers out there and some research has been done in the past. We...
Valve Source Engine, Fortnite Servers Crippled By Gafgyt Variant
A new Gafgyt variant is adding vulnerable internet of things IoT devices to its botnet arsenal and using them to cripple gaming servers worldwide. The newly-discovered variant is capable of launching a variety of denial-of-service DoS attacks against the Valve Source Engine, a video game engine...
UBoat - HTTP Botnet Project
A POC HTTP Botnet designed to replicate a full weaponised commercial botnet Disclaimer This project should be used for authorized testing or educational purposes only. The main objective behind creating this offensive project was to aid security researchers and to enhance the understanding of...
Phorpiex Botnet Shifts Gears From Ransomware to Sextortion
A recent wide-scale campaign indicates that a decade-old botnet is shifting gears from distributing ransomware to delivering millions of sextortion threats to innocent recipients. Worse, researchers say that the botnet’s spam campaign can affect up to 27 million potential victims. The botnet,...
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...
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...
Illegal Data Center Hidden in Former NATO Bunker
Interesting: German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs and other illegal activities. Seven people were arrested. ... Thirteen people aged 20 to 59 are under investigation in all, including thr...
MasterMana botnet hits users by evading detection with URL shorteners
By Waqas Dubbed MasterMana by researchers; the botnet utilizes every available option to target its victims including dropping backdoors and phishing attacks through business email compromise commonly known as BEC. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MasterMana botnet hits...
Too Interested?
I was asked to investigate an incident a while back where my client was being subjected to a sizeable DDoS attack. It was causing them significant pain and, owing to the nature of their business, implementing something like CloudFlare quickly wasn’t an option. It had the hallmarks of a...
PPTP Server/Device Compromised
The remote PPTP Server/Device might have been compromised by an attacker or a worm. Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as...
New Android banking botnet ‘Geost’ hits thousands of devices
By Sudais The botnet was basically composed of numerous Android phones which were were infected by getting them to download malicious applications. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Android banking botnet 'Geost' hits thousands of devices...
Virus Bulletin 2019: Geost Android Botnet Goes After Millions of Euros
LONDON — A powerful Android botnet dubbed Geost has been spotted targeting Russian citizens, with the end goal of distributing a banking trojan to victims. The botnet has infected more than 800,000 Android devices, controlling several million Euros held in five banks, according to researchers fro...
Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany
A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who've recently re-indicted him on related charges. NiceHash CTO Matjaž "Iserdo...
Ubiquiti Networks Device Compromised
The remote Ubiquiti Networks Device might have been compromised by an attacker or a worm. Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as...
IRS Emails Promise a Refund But Deliver Botnet Recruitment
U.S. taxpayers are being offered fake refunds in the latest wave of phishing emails, which ultimately deliver an payload that adds the target machine to the multifunctional Amadey botnet. Amadey is a relatively new botnet, first noted late in Q1 of 2019, according to Milo Salvia, security...
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...
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...
