BoNeSi - The DDoS Botnet Simulator

BoNeSi , the DDoS Botnet Simulator is a Tool to simulate Botnet Traffic in a testbed environment on the wire. It is designed to study the effect of DDoS attacks. What traffic can be generated? BoNeSi generates ICMP, UDP and TCP HTTP flooding attacks from a defined botnet size different IP...

ThreatList: Latest DDoS Trends by the Numbers

Fresh statistics reveal a mix bag of good news and bad when it comes to distributed denial-of-service attacks in Q4 2018. According to the latest numbers available, the sheer number of attacks are down, but the length of time those attacks last have reached record lengths. The numbers come from...

Super-systemic IoT flaws

IoT security flaws were always systemic: by that I mean that if I find a flaw in my smart thermostat, it affects ALL of those thermostats. A security problem with one connected car leads to problems with ALL the connected cars using that same system. That led to incidents such as the Mirai botnet...

The Challenges of DIY Botnet Detection – and How to Overcome Them

Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things IoT they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would - printers, webcams, and even toasters and fridges. Some botnets enlist infected devices to mine cryptocurrency or steal passwords from oth...

SpeakUp Linux Backdoor Sets Up for Major Attack

LAS VEGAS — A backdoor trojan dubbed “SpeakUp” has been spotted exploiting the Linux servers that run more than 90 percent of the top 1 million domains in the U.S. It uses a complex bag of tricks to infect hosts and to propagate, which analysts say could indicate that it’s poised for a major...

Cyber Security Week in Review (Feb. 1)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week Apple revoked a set of...

TheMoon Rises Again, With a Botnet-as-a-Service Threat

TheMoon, an IoT botnet targeting home routers and modems, is entering a new phase, as it were: It has added a previously undocumented module that allows it to be sold as-a-service to other malicious actors. This has already had significant real-world consequences, according to CenturyLink Threat...

U.S. Government Goes After North Korea's Joanap Botnet

The U.S. Justice Department is looking to retaliate against North Korea-linked hackers who have built up a massive global network of infected computers. The department announced on Wednesday that it would seek to map out the Joanap botnet, which has been built and controlled by North Korea-linked...

FBI Mapping 'Joanap Malware' Victims to Disrupt the North Korean Botnet

The United States Department of Justice DoJ announced Wednesday its effort to "map and further disrupt" a botnet tied to North Korea that has infected numerous Microsoft Windows computers across the globe over the last decade. Dubbed Joanap , the botnet is believed to be part of "Hidden Cobra"—an...

FBI Mapping 'Joanap Malware' Victims to Disrupt the North Korean Botnet

The United States Department of Justice DoJ announced Wednesday its effort to "map and further disrupt" a botnet tied to North Korea that has infected numerous Microsoft Windows computers across the globe over the last decade. Dubbed Joanap, the botnet is believed to be part of "Hidden Cobra"—an...

Monero: Cybercrime's Top Choice for Mining Malware

An academic analysis of cryptomining malware has determined that the Monero virtual currency XMR is “by far” the most popular cryptocurrency to mine among cybercriminals. And, it would appear that cryptomining as a criminal enterprise is unlikely to wane anytime soon. After examining approximatel...

Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS

Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out...

Man whose DDoS attacks took down entire country’s Internet jailed

By Waqas A court in London has sentenced a British and Israeli cyber criminal Daniel Kaye aka "BestBuy and Popopret" to two years and eight months in prison for conducting large scale DDoS attacks on Lonestar Cell MTN disrupting country's Internet and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage...

DDoSing Hospital Networks Landed This Hacktivist in Jail for Over 10 Years

A simple DDoS attack could land you in jail for 10 years or even more. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the computer network of two healthcare organizations in 2014 to protest the treatment of a teenager at the centers. Beyond...

Baldr Botnet Panel Shell Upload Exploit

This module exploits an arbitrary file upload vulnerability within the Baldr stealer malware control panel when uploading victim log files which are uploaded as ZIP files. Attackers can turn this vulnerability into an RCE by first registering a new bot to the panel and then uploading a ZIP file...

Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Top Botnet Trends

Botnet activity saw a healthy amount of dynamism in 2018. There were new types of devices being targeted, such as carrier-grade MikroTik hardware; and, there was also a host of new types of criminal activity surfacing making the point that botnets aren’t just for DDoS anymore. New types of...

Hackers conducting botnet attacks through 20k hacked WordPress sites

By Uzair Amir A newly published research from Defiant, a WordPress security firm, reveals that there is a botnet hunting for WordPress sites using over 20,000 already compromised WordPress sites. As the new sites are infected, these automatically become part of the bot army and start acting on th...

KeyBase Botnet 1.5 - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: KeyBase Botnet v1.5 - SQL Injection Vulnerability Google Dork: intitle:"KeyBase: Login" + intext:" Login to get access to your logs " Date: 3/12/2018 Exploit Author: n4pst3r Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Software Link: unkn0wn Version: v1.5 Tested on: Windows 10, debian 7 CVE : n/a...

KeyBase Botnet 1.5 - SQL Injection

KeyBase Botnet 1.5 - SQL Injection Exploit Title: KeyBase Botnet v1.5 - SQL Injection Vulnerability Google Dork: intitle:"KeyBase: Login" + intext:" Login to get access to your logs " Date: 3/12/2018 Exploit Author: n4pst3r Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Software Link: unkn0wn Version: v1.5 Tested on:...

KeyBase Botnet 1.5 SQL Injection

Exploit Title: KeyBase Botnet v1.5 - SQL Injection Vulnerability Google Dork: intitle:"KeyBase: Login" + intext:" Login to get access to your logs " Date: 3/12/2018 Exploit Author: n4pst3r Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Software Link: unkn0wn Version: v1.5 Tested on: Windows 10, debian 7 CVE : n/a...