New research shows 75% of ‘open’ Redis servers infected

Since our initial report on the RedisWannaMine attack that propagates through open Redis and Windows servers, we’ve been hearing about more and more attacks on Redis servers. Redis is a great tool, it can serve as in-memory distributed database, cache or a message broker and is widely popular...

Botnet Operators Team Up To Leverage IcedID, Trickbot Trojans

The botnet operators behind two infamous banking trojans have banded together to gouge victims of cash in a tricky collaborative scheme. Flashpoint analysts, who highlighted the collaboration in a Wednesday report, said that the operators behind the IcedID and TrickBot trojans appear to be...

All Hands Memo to Owners of Home / Small Office Routers: Reboot Them!

This last week or so of May has been busy with security news and incidents, as the FBI put out an unprecedented call to do a massive wave of reboots of home and small office routers, while Intel confirmed the existence of yet another Spectre / Meltdown variant. And, yes, we had yet another...

A week in security (May 21 – May 27)

Last week we told you about a Mac cryptominer using XMRig, an overview of Dreamcast related scams, part 1 of decoding Emotet, and what to do about bad coding habits that die hard. We also published the results of our second CrackMe contest. Other news How a pioneer of machine learning became one ...

FBI seizes VPNFilter botnet domain that infected 500,000 routers

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FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers

Shortly after Cisco's released its early report on a large-scale hacking campaign that infected over half a million routers and network storage devices worldwide, the United States government announced the takedown of a key internet domain used for the attack. Yesterday we reported about a piece ...

FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers

Shortly after Cisco's released its early report on a large-scale hacking campaign that infected over half a million routers and network storage devices worldwide, the United States government announced the takedown of a key internet domain used for the attack. Yesterday we reported about a piece ...

Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers

More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group. Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence unit have discovered an advanced piece of IoT botnet...

Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers

More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group. Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence unit have discovered an advanced piece of IoT botnet...

Hackers are exploiting a new zero-day flaw in GPON routers

Even after being aware of various active cyber attacks against the GPON Wi-Fi routers, if you haven't yet taken them off the Internet, then be careful—because a new botnet has joined the GPON party, which is exploiting an undisclosed zero-day vulnerability in the wild. Security researchers from...

Hackers are exploiting a new zero-day flaw in GPON routers

Even after being aware of various active cyber attacks against the GPON Wi-Fi routers, if you haven't yet taken them off the Internet, then be careful—because a new botnet has joined the GPON party, which is exploiting an undisclosed zero-day vulnerability in the wild. Security researchers from...

Malicious PHP Script Infects 2,400 Websites in the Past Week

A botnet dubbed Brain Food is giving webmasters indigestion with related attacks that push bogus diet pills and IQ-boosting pills via web pages hosted on legitimate sites. So far, spammers have been successful, thanks to an effective Hypertext Preprocessor PHP script also called Brain Food that h...

A week in security (May 7 – May 13)

Last week on Labs, we looked at the case of a fake Android AV, an annoying adware that goes by the name of Kuik, the return of threat actors behind the Shopper Stop tech scam, a new Netflix phishing scam, the recent zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and the insufficiency of merely...

Panda Banking Trojan Diversifies into Cryptocurrency, Porn, Other Targets

The Panda banking trojan, a spin-off from the infamous Zeus malware, is widening its net to attack more than just financial services targets, as seen in three ongoing campaigns discovered in May. The Windows-focused Panda is far from the cuddly thing its name would suggest. It has a full arsenal ...

5 Powerful Botnets Found Exploiting Unpatched GPON Router Flaws

Well, that did not take long. Within just 10 days of the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in GPON router at least 5 botnet families have been found exploiting the flaws to build an army of million devices. Security researchers from Chinese-based cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 Netlab have...

5 Powerful Botnets Found Exploiting Unpatched GPON Router Flaws

Well, that did not take long. Within just 10 days of the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in GPON router at least 5 botnet families have been found exploiting the flaws to build an army of million devices. Security researchers from Chinese-based cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 Netlab have...

Sierra Wireless Patches Critical Vulns in Range of Wireless Routers

Sierra Wireless has patched two critical vulnerabilities for its range of wireless gateways that would leave the enterprise devices helpless to an array of remote threats, including the charms of the Reaper IoT botnet. The more critical of the two with a 9.4 CVSSv3 Temp Score is a...

A Simple Tool Released to Protect Dasan GPON Routers from Remote Hacking

Since hackers have started exploiting two recently disclosed unpatched critical vulnerabilities found in GPON home routers, security researchers have now released an unofficial patch to help millions of affected users left vulnerable by their device manufacturer. Last week, researchers at vpnMent...

Pr0nbot is Back – and Evading Twitter Censors

A rapidly swelling botnet of Twitter accounts advertising “adult dating”-themed scam websites has at least 80,000 nodes to date – and only half of them have been caught and restricted by Twitter. The botnet is likely a resurgence of a previous porn-bot, which sported the SFW moniker “Pr0nbot” and...

Boutique Shops Offering Rewards Points Pop Up on the Dark Web

Cybercriminal interest in stolen data is not solely limited to financial or personally identifiable information. The exploitation of rewards-points programs, especially those associated with travel, is also on the radar screen for the bad guys. To cater to this interest, a series of boutique stor...