Malicious code in @years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 85113dcbea98d25a66f14a975ab391a33a72964b38c916b386125857e35ca268 On npm install, the package's postinstall script callback.js / index.js fetches mhddos, PyRoxy, impacket, and multidict tarballs from...

MAL-2026-13896 Malicious code in @years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 85113dcbea98d25a66f14a975ab391a33a72964b38c916b386125857e35ca268 On npm install, the package's postinstall script callback.js / index.js fetches mhddos, PyRoxy, impacket, and multidict tarballs from...

Malicious code in @years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-s (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 2955ed4843fe66495bbe53420b28e91530f48facae3aea0a9c3719676c30c0a5 The package's postinstall script writes /tmp/attack.py — a Python UDP/TCP flooder targeting the hardcoded IP 103.118.252.21 on ports 80/443 for 600...

Malicious code in @years19/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-x (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector da3601885350a7fc85f418da9fb3f800a5e76949562ad23ac44d5c2b068088c4 The package's postinstall hook runs node callback.js, and package.json declares main=index.js which is byte-identical to callback.js, so both npm...

MAL-2026-13857 Malicious code in @years18/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-m (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 5db497bbce490daad792ade6e502a9d382634c48047a6be6fcf31fd731bf6a53 The package's declared postinstall script node callback.js and its main entrypoint index.js contain identical payloads that fire on npm install and...

CVE-2018-25117

VestaCP commit a3f0fa1 2018-05-31 up to commit ee03eff 2018-06-13 contain embedded malicious code that resulted in a supply-chain compromise. New installations created from the compromised installer since at least May 2018 were subject to installation of Linux/ChachaDDoS, a multi-stage DDoS bot...

CVE-2018-25117

VestaCP commit a3f0fa1 2018-05-31 up to commit ee03eff 2018-06-13 contain embedded malicious code that resulted in a supply-chain compromise. New installations created from the compromised installer since at least May 2018 were subject to installation of Linux/ChachaDDoS, a multi-stage DDoS bot...

EUVD-2018-21604

VestaCP commit a3f0fa1 2018-05-31 up to commit ee03eff 2018-06-13 contain embedded malicious code that resulted in a supply-chain compromise. New installations created from the compromised installer since at least May 2018 were subject to installation of Linux/ChachaDDoS, a multi-stage DDoS bot...

Researchers Warn of "Eternity Project" Malware Service Being Sold via Telegram

An unidentified threat actor has been linked to an actively in-development malware toolkit called the "Eternity Project" that lets professional and amateur cybercriminals buy stealers, clippers, worms, miners, ransomware, and a distributed denial-of-service DDoS bot. What makes this...

Week in security (February 26 – March 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explained how to protect your computer from malicious cryptomining, we gave an encryption 101 lesson using ShiOne ransomware as a case study, and we offered an explanation about SQL injection. We also released a report on the state of malicious cryptomining from...

Blast from the past: stowaway Virut delivered with Chinese DDoS bot

Recently, we described an unusual Chinese drive-by attack that was delivering a variant of the Avzhan DDoS bot. The attack also contained multiple components that were not-so-new. Among the exploits, the newest was from 2016. Avzhan is also not a recent malware—the compilation timestamp of the...

A week in security (February 19 – February 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we gave readers a primer on encryption, took a stab at that Deepfakes tool Internet users seem to be interested in, and started a new series that talks about GDPR. We also looked at a drive-by download campaign that starts in booby-trapped Chinese websites that dro...

Avzhan DDoS bot dropped by Chinese drive-by attack

The Avzhan DDoS bot has been known since 2010, but recently we saw it in wild again, being dropped by a Chinese drive-by attack. In this post, we'll take a deep dive into its functionality and compare the sample we captured with the one described in the past. Analyzed sample...

Malware exploit: Xdh

Type: Remote Code Execution Author: shipcod3 / Jay Turla This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class MetasploitModule Msf::Exploit::Remote Rank = ExcellentRanking include...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit4 'Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module allows remote command execution on an I...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module allows remote command execution on an IRC Bot developed by xdh. This perl bot was caught by Conor Patrick with his shellshock honeypot server and is categorized by Markus Zanke as an fBot Fire & Forget - DDoS Bot. Matt Thayer also found this script which has a description o...

Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit4 'Xdh / LinuxNet Perlbot / fBot IRC Bot Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module allows remote command execution on an I...

Inside the Black Energy 2 Botnet

By Dmitry Tarakanov Cybercriminals use a variety of bots to conduct DDoS attacks on Internet servers. One of the most popular tools is called Black Energy. To date, Kaspersky Lab has identified and implemented detection for over 4,000 modifications of this malicious program. In mid-2008 malware...