Default Password 'QwestM0dem' for 'admin' Account

The account 'admin' on the remote host has the default password 'QwestM0dem'. A remote attacker can exploit this issue to gain administrative access to the affected system. Note that this username / password combination was found in the leaked source from the Mirai botnet. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

New Mirai Botnet Variant Found Targeting ZyXEL Devices In Argentina

While tracking botnet activity on their honeypot traffic, security researchers at Chinese IT security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered a new variant of Mirai—the well known IoT botnet malware that wreaked havoc last year. Last week, researchers noticed an increase in traffic scanning ports 2323 a...

Newly Published Exploit Code Used to Spread Mirai Variant

Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers reported on Friday that they are tracking an uptick in botnet activity associated with a variant of Mirai. Targeted are ports 23 and 2323 on internet-connected devices made by ZyXEL Communications that are using default admin/CenturyL1nk and admin/QwestM0dem telnet...

PT-2017-4188

The Huawei HG532 router, including some customized versions, is affected by a remote code execution issue. An authenticated attacker can send malicious packets to port 37215 to launch attacks, potentially leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code. Meanwhile, researchers have discovered a...

World's Biggest Botnet Just Sent 12.5 Million Emails With Scarab Ransomware

A massive malicious email campaign that stems from the world's largest spam botnet Necurs is spreading a new strain of ransomware at the rate of over 2 million emails per hour and hitting computers across the globe. The popular malspam botnet Necrus which has previously found distributing Dridex...

This Holiday Season - Buy One IoT Device, Get Free CVEs

As the Internet of Things gains steam and continues to develop, so are adversaries and the threats affecting these systems. Companies throughout the world are busy deploying low cost Internet-connected computing devices aka the Internet of Things to solve business problems and improve our lives. ...

Hacker Distributes Backdoored IoT Vulnerability Scanning Script to Hack Script Kiddies

Nothing is free in this world. If you are searching for free hacking tools on the Internet, then beware—most freely available tools, claiming to be the swiss army knife for hackers, are nothing but a scam. For example, Cobian RAT and a Facebook hacking tool that we previously reported on The Hack...

DDoS attacks in Q3 2017

News Overview In the third quarter of 2017, the trends of the preceding quarters continued to develop further. The number of DDoS attacks in China, the United States, South Korea and Russia increased, which were reflected in the statistics we gathered for botnets. A sharp surge in the number more...

No Prison for Student who Developed Spam Botnet to Pay College Fee

By Carolina Sean Tiernan, 29 from Santa Clara, California was given 24 months probation This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: No Prison for Student who Developed Spam Botnet to Pay College Fee...

Telnet IoT Honeypot - Python Telnet Honeypot For Catching Botnet Binaries

This project implements a python telnet server trying to act as a honeypot for IoT Malware which spreads over horribly insecure default passwords on telnet servers on the internet. Other than https://github.com/stamparm/hontel or https://github.com/micheloosterhof/cowrie examples, which provides...

Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Security

Before the recent natural disasters, I could describe to you how we as a community might recover after a cyberattack to our critical infrastructure, but it would be hard to imagine. Some may argue that it would be too extreme of a scenario to consider and that we would never get to the point wher...

Fear the Reaper, or Reaper Madness?

Last week we looked at reports from China and Israel about a new "Internet of Things" malware strain called "Reaper" that researchers said infected more than a million organizations by targeting newfound security weaknesses in countless Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorde...

Hackers Prepping IOTroop Botnet with Exploits

Hackers moved one step closer to launching full-scale DDoS attacks using millions of IoT devices herded into the botnet known as Reaper or IOTroop. Researchers at NewSky Security warn that hackers are swapping scripts on forums that can scan the internet for vulnerable IoT devices and dump defaul...

MVPower DVR Remote Command Execution

The remote AOST-based network video recorder distributed by MVPower is affected by a remote command execution vulnerability. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use this vulnerability to execute operating system commands as root. This vulnerability has been used by the IoT Reaper botnet. C...

Linksys E1500/E2500 Authenticated Command Execution

The remote Linksys router is affected by an authenticated command execution vulnerability. An authenticated remote attacker can use this vulnerability to execute operating system commands as root. This vulnerability has been used by the IoT Reaper botnet. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Reaper Botnet

It's based on the Mirai code, but much more virulent: While Mirai caused widespread outages, it impacted IP cameras and internet routers by simply exploiting their weak or default passwords. The latest botnet threat, known as alternately as IoT Troop or Reaper, has evolved that strategy, using...

Vocran NVR Remote Command Execution

The remote Vocran network video recorder is affected by a remote command execution vulnerability due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input passed via /board.cgi. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary commands on the device...

D-Link DIR-300L/600L Remote Command Execution

The remote D-Link DIR router is affected by a remote command execution vulnerability. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use this vulnerability to execute operating system commands as root. This vulnerability has been used by the IoT Reaper botnet. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

AVTech Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote AVTech device is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. Depending on the firmware version the vulnerabilities may include: - All user passwords are stored in cleartext - The web interface does not use CSRF protections - An attacker is able to perform arbitrary HTTP requests through the...

New Rapidly-Growing IoT Botnet Threatens to Take Down the Internet

Just a year after Mirai—biggest IoT-based malware that caused vast Internet outages by launching massive DDoS attacks—completed its first anniversary, security researchers are now warning of a brand new rapidly growing IoT botnet. Dubbed 'IoTreaper,' first spotted in September by researchers at...