New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide

Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publicly accessible Windows RDP servers on the Internet. Dubbed GoldBrute, the botnet scheme has been designed in a way to escalate gradually by adding every new...

Egyptian DDoS Campaign Observations

Between March 19 and March 25, 2019, there was a very large amount of DDoS traffic sourced from a specific Egyptian Autonomous System ASN directed at Akamai Prolexic customers. It's worth noting this is an ASN we rarely see in our pre-attack, or top source IPs during active attacks. When it showe...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2019

News overview The start of the year saw the appearance of various new tools in the arsenal of DDoS-attack masterminds. In early February, for instance, the new botnet Cayosin, assembled from elements of Qbot, Mirai, and other publicly available malware, swam into view. Cybersecurity experts were...

Exploring botnets in VR

By Asaf Nadler & Lior Lahav Botnets often use domain generation algorithms DGAs to select a domain name, which bots use to establish communication channels with their command and control servers C2. Since Akamai analyzes over 2.2 trillion DNS requests per day, and detects thousands of active...

Botnet-led DDoS Attacks Are Hitting Record Intensities. Imperva is Mitigating All of Them.

DDoS attacks are usually ranked by the amount of bandwidth involved, such as the 2018 GitHub attack that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second and is often cited as the largest DDoS attack ever. From Imperva’s long history of successfully mitigating DDoS attacks, we know that the TRUE measure of...

This Week in Security News: BEC Attacks and Botnet Malware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the prevalence and impact of BEC attacks. Also, find out how botnet malware can perform remote code execution, DDoS attacks and...

PT-2019-6463 · Zyxel · Zyxel P660Hn-T1A

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ZyXEL P660HN-T1A versions $7.3.15.0 v001 / 3.40ULM.0b31 Description: The issue is related to a command injection vulnerability in the Remote System Log forwarding function of the ZyXEL P660HN-T1A router. This vulnerability is accessible throu...

Muhstik Botnet Variant Targets Just-Patched Oracle WebLogic Flaw

UPDATE A variant of the Muhstik botnet has been uncovered in the wild, exploiting a recently-disclosed, dangerous vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic servers. The newfound samples of Muhstik are targeting the recently-patched CVE-2019-2725 in WebLogic servers, and then launching...

New Electrum DDoS botnet steals $4.6M after infecting 152,000 hosts

By Ryan De Souza The majority of the bots are located in Brazil and Peru but the number of victims is constantly increasing across diverse regions. Threat actors who previously targeted cryptocurrency wallets through Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have now launched another malware...

Rapidly Growing Electrum Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Users; Steals $4.6 Million

An ongoing attack against Electrum Bitcoin wallets has just grown bigger and stronger with attackers now targeting the whole infrastructure of the exchange with a botnet of over 152,000 infected users, raising the amount of stolen users' funds to USD 4.6 million. Electrum has been facing cyber...

Rapidly Growing Electrum Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Users; Steals $4.6 Million

An ongoing attack against Electrum Bitcoin wallets has just grown bigger and stronger with attackers now targeting the whole infrastructure of the exchange with a botnet of over 152,000 infected users, raising the amount of stolen users' funds to USD 4.6 million. Electrum has been facing cyber...

Agent Tesla Botnet Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Agent Tesla Botnet suffers from an information leakage vulnerability. Exploit Title: Agent Tesla Botnet - Information Disclosure Disclosure Vulnerability Exploit Author: n4pst3r Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Software Link: http://www.agenttesla.com/ ¡ Down ! Version: unkn0wn Tested on: Windows 10,...

Agent Tesla Botnet - Information Disclosure

Agent Tesla Botnet - Information Disclosure Exploit Title: Agent Tesla Botnet - Information Disclosure Disclosure Vulnerability Google Dork: n/a Date: 26/11/2018 Exploit Author: n4pst3r Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Software Link: http://www.agenttesla.com/ ¡ Down ! Version: unkn0wn Tested on: Windows...

Agent Tesla Botnet - Information Disclosure

Exploit Title: Agent Tesla Botnet - Information Disclosure Disclosure Vulnerability Google Dork: n/a Date: 26/11/2018 Exploit Author: n4pst3r Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Software Link: http://www.agenttesla.com/ ¡ Down ! Version: unkn0wn Tested on: Windows 10, debian 7 CVE : n/a Greetz: Shell.root,...

Electrum DDoS botnet reaches 152,000 infected hosts

By Jérôme Segura, Adam Thomas, and S!Ri We have been closely monitoring the situation involving the continued attacks against users of the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet. Initially, victims were being tricked to download a fraudulent update that stole their cryptocurrencies. Later on, the threat...

Agent Tesla Botnet Information Disclosure

Exploit Title: Agent Tesla Botnet - Information Disclosure Disclosure Vulnerability Google Dork: n/a Date: 26/11/2018 Exploit Author: n4pst3r Vendor Homepage: unkn0wn Software Link: http://www.agenttesla.com/ ¡ Down ! Version: unkn0wn Tested on: Windows 10, debian 7 CVE : n/a Greetz: Shell.root,...

Exploits for Social Warfare WordPress Plugin Reach Critical Mass

UPDATE Active exploits for a recently disclosed bug in a popular WordPress plugin, Social Warfare, are snowballing in the wild – potentially putting more than 40,000 websites at risk. The vulnerability, CVE-2019-9978, tracks both a stored cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability and a remote...

This Week in Security News: Medical Malware and Monitor Hacks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how baby monitors may be susceptible to hacking. Also, learn about a medical flaw that enables hackers to hide malware. Read on: Is Yo...

Malware targeting industrial plants: a threat to physical security

We live in a world where more and more manufacturing processes are controlled by computers that send instructions to robots. This might sound like a safe and efficient way of work, as it rules out human error, but what happens when a threat actor decides to target production servers? Consider the...

Mirai Rebirth Highlights Importance of Defending IoT

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. Enterprises of all sizes face a massive challenge when it come...