FreakOut Botnet Turns DVRs Into Monero Cryptominers

Threat group FreakOut’s Necro botnet has developed a new trick: infecting Visual Tools DVRs with a Monero miner. Juniper Threat Labs researchers have issued a report detailing new activities from FreakOut, also known as Necro Python and Python.IRCBot. In late September, the team noticed that the...

Ongoing ‘FreakOut’ malware attack turns Linux devices into IRC botnet

By Sudais Asif According to Checkpoint, the "FreakOut" malware attack is exploiting "newest vulnerabilities." Here's a full list of its capabilities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ongoing FreakOut malware attack turns Linux devices into IRC botnet...

Security Notice - Statement about the FreakOut Malware

Huawei has noticed media reports on an attack by the FreakOut malware. This attack exploits CVE-2020-28188, CVE-2021-3007, and CVE-2020-7961 vulnerabilities. Huawei has finished investigation and analysis regarding FreakOut. It is confirmed that Huawei products do not involve CVE-2020-28188...

Linux Devices Under Attack by New FreakOut Malware

Researchers are warning a novel malware variant is targeting Linux devices, in order to add endpoints to a botnet to then be utilized in distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attacks and cryptomining. The malware variant, called FreakOut, has a variety of capabilities. Those include port scanning,...

FreakOut! Ongoing Botnet Attack Exploiting Recent Linux Vulnerabilities

An ongoing malware campaign has been found exploiting recently disclosed vulnerabilities in network-attached storage NAS devices running on Linux systems to co-opt the machines into an IRC botnet for launching distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and mining Monero cryptocurrency. The attack...

CVE-2021-3007

Laminas Project laminas-http before 2.14.2, and Zend Framework 3.0.0, has a deserialization vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution if the content is controllable, related to the destruct method of the Zend\Http\Response\Stream class in Stream.php. NOTE: Zend Framework is no longer...