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ELLIO and ntop Partnership Enhances Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring
By Cyber Newswire ELLIO and ntop partnership to boost high-speed network traffic monitoring with real-time data on opportunistic scans, botnets, and… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ELLIO and ntop Partnership Enhances Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring...
C2-Tracker - Live Feed Of C2 Servers, Tools, And Botnets
Free to use IOC feed for various tools/malware. It started out for just C2 tools but has morphed into tracking infostealers and botnets as well. It uses shodan.io/"Shodan searches to collect the IPs. The most recent collection is always stored in data; the IPs are broken down by tool and there is...
Year in Malware 2023: Recapping the major cybersecurity stories of the past year
If there is anything the cybersecurity world learned in 2023, its that you can never count any bad guy out. Botnets kept coming back from the dead, ransomware actors found new ways to make money through data theft extortion and threat actors and malware who have been around for more than a decade...
Record-Breaking 100 Million RPS DDoS Attack Exploits HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Flaw
Cloudflare on Thursday said it mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks that exploited a recently disclosed flaw called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, 89 of which exceeded 100 million requests per second RPS. "The campaign contributed to an overall increase of...
Overview of IoT threats in 2023
IoT devices routers, cameras, NAS boxes, and smart home components multiply every year. Statista portal predicts their number will exceed 29 billion by 2030. As connected device numbers increase, so does the need for protection against various threats. The first-ever large-scale malware attacks o...
DDoS 2.0: IoT Sparks New DDoS Alert
The Internet of Things IoT is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they're uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What I...
QakBot Malware Operators Expand C2 Network with 15 New Servers
The operators associated with the QakBot aka QBot malware have set up 15 new command-and-control C2 servers as of late June 2023. The findings are a continuation of the malware's infrastructure analysis from Team Cymru, and arrive a little over two months after Lumen Black Lotus Labs revealed tha...
Dark.IoT & Custom Botnets Exploit Zyxel Flaw in DDoS Attacks
By Waqas The DDoS attacks have been observed in various regions, including Central America, North America, East Asia, and South Asia. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark.IoT & Custom Botnets Exploit Zyxel Flaw in DDoS Attacks...
Understanding Malware-as-a-Service
Money is the root of all evil, including cybercrime. Thus, it was inevitable that malware creators would one day begin not only to distribute malicious programs themselves, but also to sell them to less technically proficient attackers, thereby lowering the threshold for entering the cybercrimina...
LimeRAT Malware Analysis: Extracting the Config
Remote Access Trojans RATs have taken the third leading position in ANY. RUN's Q1 2023 report on the most prevalent malware types, making it highly probable that your organization may face this threat. Though LimeRAT might not be the most well-known RAT family, its versatility is what sets it...
A week in security (April 10 - 16)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: How the cops buy a "God view" of your location data, with Bennett Cyphers: Lock and Code S04E09 Apple releases emergency updates for two known-to-be-exploited vulnerabilities Don't plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI KFC, Pizza Hut owner employe...
Port scan attacks: Protecting your business from RDP attacks and Mirai botnets
Compromised IP addresses and domains--otherwise legitimate sites that are exploited by hackers without the owner's knowledge--are frequently utilized to conduct port scanning attacks. Port scanning involves systematically scanning a computer network for open ports, which can then be exploited by...
Unveiling ChinaZ DDoS Threat Landscape
Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary ChinaZ, a Chinese threat group, is infamous for using DDoS botnets to attack Windows and Linux systems. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow HiveForce Labs on LinkedIn...
Realtek Vulnerability Under Attack: Over 134 Million Attempts to Hack IoT Devices
Researchers are warning about a spike in exploitation attempts weaponizing a now-patched critical remote code execution flaw in Realtek Jungle SDK since the start of August 2022. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the ongoing campaign is said to have recorded 134 million exploit attempts as...
81% Increase in Large-Volume DDoS Attacks
Since 2021, distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have trended upwards, both in volume and frequency. Layer 7 DDoS attacks of at least 500,000 requests per second RPS increased 81% in the past year. In addition to greater frequency, attack sizes were larger in 2022 than in 2021. The largest...
Silence is golden partner for Truebot and Clop ransomware
A recent rise in the number of Truebot infections has been attributed to a threat actor known as the Silence Group. The Silence Group is an initial access broker IAB that frequently changes tools and tactics to stay on top of the game. An IAB's primary task is to find a weakness or vulnerability,...
Truebot exploits vulnerability in Netwrix to deploy Clop Ransomware
Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary In 2017, Truebot was discovered to be linked to the Silence group and has affected more than 1,500 systems worldwide with shellcode, Cobalt Strike beacons, Grace malware, the Teleport tool, and Clop...
Breaking the silence - Recent Truebot activity
Since August 2022, we have seen an increase in infections of Truebot aka Silence.Downloader malware. Truebot was first identified in 2017 and researchers have linked it to a threat actor called Silence Group that is responsible for several high-impact attacks on financial institutions in several...
Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion
A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon, a popular "malware-as-a-service" offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims...
