Emotet is back after a summer break

By Colin Grady, William Largent, and Jaeson Schultz. Emotet is still evolving, five years after its debut as a banking trojan. It is one of the world's most dangerous botnets and malware droppers-for-hire. The malware payloads dropped by Emotet serve to more fully monetize their attacks, and ofte...

Aura-Botnet - A Super Portable Botnet Framework With A Django-based C2 Server

Aura Botnet C2 Server The botnet's C2 server utilizes the Django framework as the backend. It is far from the most efficient web server, but this is offset by the following: Django is extremely portable and therefore good for testing/educational purposes. The server and database are contained...

Emotet is back: botnet springs back to life with new spam campaign

After a fairly long hiatus that lasted nearly four months, Emotet is back with an active spam distribution campaign. For a few weeks, there were signs that the botnet was setting its gears in motion again, as we observed command and control C2 server activity. But this morning, the Trojan started...

Watchbog and the Importance of Patching

By Luke DuCharme and Paul Lee. What Happened? Cisco Incident Response CSIRS recently responded to an incident involving the Watchbog cryptomining botnet. The attackers were able to exploit CVE-2018-1000861 to gain a foothold and install the Watchbog malware on the affected systems. This Linux-bas...

Telnet Backdoor Opens More Than 1M IoT Radios to Hijack

Imperial Dabman IoT radios have a weak password vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to achieve root access to the gadgets’ embedded Linux BusyBox operating system, gaining control over the device. Adversaries can deliver malware, add a compromised radio to a botnet, send custom audio...

‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty

A 21-year-old man from Vancouver, Wash. has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the "Satori" botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things IoT devices that was built to conduct massive denial-of-service attacks targeting Internet service provider...

A week in security (August 26 – September 1)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we analysed the Android xHelper trojan, we wondered why the Nextdoor app would send out letters on behalf of their customers, reported about a study that explores the clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites, wondered how to get the board to invest in...

Meet Retadup botnet that was infected by another malware

By Sudais Meet Retadup malware botnet that was infected by another malware - Avast and French authorities have now dismantled the nasty Retadup botnet. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meet Retadup botnet that was infected by another malware...

Cops Take Over a Botnet to Clear Malware Off Nearly a Million PCs

Attacking Iran, a web host data breach, and more of the week's top security news...

French Police Remotely Removed RETADUP Malware from 850,000 Infected PCs

The French law enforcement agency, National Gendarmerie, today announced the successful takedown of one of the largest wide-spread RETADUP botnet malware and how it remotely disinfected more than 850,000 computers worldwide with the help of researchers. Earlier this year, security researchers at...

French Police Remotely Removed RETADUP Malware from 850,000 Infected PCs

The French law enforcement agency, National Gendarmerie, today announced the successful takedown of one of the largest wide-spread RETADUP botnet malware and how it remotely disinfected more than 850,000 computers worldwide with the help of researchers. Earlier this year, security researchers at...

GSA Bounty: xmlrpc.php file enabled - data.gov

Wordpress that have xmlrpc.php enabled for pingbacks, trackbacks, etc. can be made as a part of a huge botnet causing a major DDOS. this website www.data.gov has the xmlrpc.php file enabled. Impact This can be automated from multiple hosts and be used to cause a mass DDOS attack on the victim...

Agent Tesla Botnet - Arbitrary Code Execution (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "Tesla Agent Remote Code Execution", 'Description' = %q This module exploits the command injection vulnerability of tesla agent botnet panel. ,...

Agent Tesla Botnet - Arbitrary Code Execution (Metasploit)

Agent Tesla Botnet - Arbitrary Code Execution Metasploit This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "Tesla Agent Remote Code Execution", 'Description' = %q This module exploits the command...

AZORult Botnet - SQL Injection

AZORult Botnet - SQL Injection import requests import argparse import base64 Azorult 3.3.1 C2 SQLi by prsecurity For research purposes only. Don't pwn what you don't own. change GUID and XOR key to specific beacon, can be extracted from a sample guid =...

Azorult Botnet - SQL Injection Exploit

Azorult Botnet - SQL Injection import requests import argparse import base64 Azorult 3.3.1 C2 SQLi by prsecurity For research purposes only. Don't pwn what you don't own. change GUID and XOR key to specific beacon, can be extracted from a sample guid =...

Agent Tesla Botnet Arbitrary Code Execution

import requests import argparse import base64 Agent Tesla C2 RCE by prsecurity For research purposes only. Don't pwn what you don't own. def getargs: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser prog="agentteslasploit.py", formatterclass=lambda prog: argparse.HelpFormatterprog, maxhelpposition=50, epilog= ''...

AZORult Botnet SQL Injection

import requests import argparse import base64 Azorult 3.3.1 C2 SQLi by prsecurity For research purposes only. Don't pwn what you don't own. change GUID and XOR key to specific beacon, can be extracted from a sample guid =...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Smominru Botnet Leverages New Attack Techniques

Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU and CB ThreatSight discovered the resurgence of a previously active crypytomining botnet campaign called Smominru. This campaign has evolved since its original discovery in the latter half of 2017, leveraging new techniques including LOLbins, polymorphic...

Baldr Botnet Panel - Arbitrary Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a arbitrary file upload vulnerability within the Baldr stealer malware control panel. Attackers can turn this vulnerability into remote code execution by adding malicious PHP code inside the victim logs ZIP file and registering a new bot to the panel by uploading t...