This Notorious Botnet Has an Alarming New Trick

The hackers behind TrickBot have begun probing victim PCs for vulnerable firmware, which would let them persist on devices undetected...

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 19, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. In case you hadn’t already realized, Snort somehow became a meme this week, so that was fun. As 2020 finally...or already...I can’t decide which comes to an end, we’re going to start doing a look back at the year that was in...

Stantinko Botnet Now Targeting Linux Servers to Hide Behind Proxies

An adware and coin-miner botnet targeting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan at least since 2012 has now set its sights on Linux servers to fly under the radar. According to a new analysis published by Intezer today and shared with The Hacker News, the trojan masquerades as HTTPd, a commonl...

Stantinko Botnet Now Targeting Linux Servers to Hide Behind Proxies

An adware and coin-miner botnet targeting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan at least since 2012 has now set its sights on Linux servers to fly under the radar. According to a new analysis published by Intezer today and shared with The Hacker News, the trojan masquerades as HTTPd, a commonl...

IoT forecast: Running antivirus on your smart device?

In 2016, threat actors pulled off a basic but devastating botnet attack that harnessed the power of the Internet of Things IoT. After gathering a list of 61 default username and password combinations for IoT devices, threat actors scanned the Internet for open Telnet ports and, when they found a...

Botnet Attackers Turn to Vulnerable IoT Devices

The vast number of Internet-of-Things IoT devices are proving to be lucrative for botnet operators to carry out various attacks – from sending spam to launching harmful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, according to Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at...

New worming botnet Gitpaste-12 infecting IoT devices, Linux servers

By Waqas Gitpaste-12 uses GitHub and Pastebin for framing the component code and has 12 different attack modules. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New worming botnet Gitpaste-12 infecting IoT devices, Linux servers...

CVE-2020-16846 — SaltStack Unauthenticated Shell Injection

An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt through 3002. Sending crafted web requests to the Salt API, with the SSH client enabled, can result in shell injection. Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at October 14, 2021 2:31pm UTC reported: Being exploited in the wild as of April 2021. Juniper Networks...

US jails Russian hacker for 8 years over botnet, bank fraud

By Deeba Ahmed The hacker participated in a sophisticated scheme to steal, exchange sensitive financial, personal data, causing a loss of $100 million to the victims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US jails Russian hacker for 8 years over botnet, bank fraud...

Agent Tesla Botnet Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Agent Tesla Botnet - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability Google Dork: n/a Date: 29/10/2020 Exploit Author: n4pst3r Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Software Link: http://www.agenttesla.com/ ¡ Down ! Version: unkn0wn Tested on: Windows 10, debian 7 CVE : n/a Vuln-Code:...

How the Crypto Challenge as Action Helped a Major Airline Reduce False Positives While Protecting the Customer Experience

Challenges of Bot Detection: Keeping Defenses High Without Triggering False Positives Identifying bots is important and complicated work. Keeping up with ever-changing bot technologies and attack strategies requires deep knowledge and continuous threat research. The outbreak of the COVID-19...

KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms

An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems CMS. The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for...

KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms

An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems CMS. The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for...

CrimeOps of the KashmirBlack Botnet – Part II

Introduction The previous blog - “CrimeOps of the KasmirBlack Botnet - Part I” - described the DevOps behind the botnet. It showed how its well-designed infrastructure makes it easy to expand and add new exploits or payloads without much effort,and explained the evolution and version deployment o...

CrimeOps of the KashmirBlack Botnet – Part I

Introduction Being in a research team exposes us to a variety of attacks on different platforms, of different types, scope, and volume. It also gives us the opportunity to select particularly interesting attacks that target our customers and to analyze them. This blog will give you a taste of the...

Lemon Duck Cryptocurrency-Mining Botnet Activity Spikes

Researchers are warning of a recent dramatic uptick in the activity of the Lemon Duck cryptocurrency-mining botnet, which targets victims’ computer resources to mine the Monero virtual currency. Click to Register! Researchers warn that Lemon Duck is “one of the more complex” mining botnets, with...

TrickBot Takedown Disrupts Major Crimeware Apparatus

The TrickBot trojan has been dealt a serious blow thanks to a coordinated action led by Microsoft that disrupted the botnet that spreads it. However, researchers warn that the operators will quickly try to revive their operations. TrickBot is known for spreading other malware, especially...

Lemon Duck brings cryptocurrency miners back into the spotlight

By Vanja Svajcer, with contributions from Caitlin Huey. We are used to ransomware attacks and big-game hunting making headlines, but there are still methods adversaries use to monetize their efforts in less intrusive ways.Cisco Talos recently recorded increased activity of the Lemon Duck...

Microsoft and Other Tech Companies Take Down TrickBot Botnet

Days after the US Government took steps to disrupt the notorious TrickBot botnet, a group of cybersecurity and tech companies has detailed a separate coordinated effort to take down the malware's back-end infrastructure. The joint collaboration, which involved Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit,...

Microsoft and Other Tech Companies Take Down TrickBot Botnet

Days after the US Government took steps to disrupt the notorious TrickBot botnet, a group of cybersecurity and tech companies has detailed a separate coordinated effort to take down the malware's back-end infrastructure. The joint collaboration, which involved Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit,...