Canada’s Spy Agency Used First-of-Its-Kind Warrant to Clean Botnet-Infected Devices

Canada's spy service got a judge's permission to reach into infected servers, home routers, and IoT gear sitting on Canadian soil and neutralize two foreign-run botnets. The Federal Court released a public version of the ruling on June 15. It is the first time the Canadian Security Intelligence...

Security Bulletin: XcodeGhost iOS malware

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Pirated PC games are delivering password-stealing malware

A new Windows malware campaign hides inside pirated PC games and modified installers for franchises like Far Cry, Need for Speed, FIFA, and Assassin’s Creed. Researchers estimate that more than 400,000 devices worldwide have been infected, with around 30,000 users in the US. The infection method ...

Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

A new distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet known as Kimwolf has enlisted a massive army of no less than 1.8 million infected devices comprising Android-based TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, and may be associated with another botnet known as AISURU, according to findings from QiAnXin XLab...

Microsoft Mitigates Record 15.72 Tbps DDoS Attack Driven by AISURU Botnet

Microsoft on Monday disclosed that it automatically detected and neutralized a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack targeting a single endpoint in Australia that measured 15.72 terabits per second Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second pps. The tech giant said it was the largest DDo...

TP-Link Router Botnet

There is a new botnet that is infecting TP-Link routers: The botnet can lead to command injection which then makes remote code execution RCE possible so that the malware can spread itself across the internet automatically. This high severity security flaw tracked as CVE-2023-1389 has also been us...

Malicious code in passkeys-resources-website (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 5256b8944e68915e19451b582ae574907838c2157234efe3f5290b6330ac3439 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

U.S. Dismantles World's Largest 911 S5 Botnet with 19 Million Infected Devices

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said it dismantled what it described as "likely the world's largest botnet ever," which consisted of an army of 19 million infected devices that was leased to other threat actors to commit a wide array of offenses. The botnet, which has a global...

How to catch a wild triangle

In the beginning of 2023, thanks to our Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform KUMA SIEM system, we noticed suspicious network activity that turned out to be an ongoing attack targeting the iPhones and iPads of our colleagues. The moment we understood that there was a clear pattern in...

MyloBot Botnet Spreading Rapidly Worldwide: Infecting Over 50,000 Devices Daily

A sophisticated botnet known as MyloBot has compromised thousands of systems, with most of them located in India, the U.S., Indonesia, and Iran. That's according to new findings from BitSight, which said it's "currently seeing more than 50,000 unique infected systems every day," down from a high ...

This Malicious App Abused Hacked Devices to Create Fake Accounts on Multiple Platforms

A malicious Android SMS application discovered on the Google Play Store has been found to stealthily harvest text messages with the goal of creating accounts on a wide range of platforms like Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp. The app, named Symoo com.vanjan.sms, had over 100,000 downloads and...

Raspberry Robin worm part of larger ecosystem facilitating pre-ransomware activity

Microsoft has discovered recent activity indicating that the Raspberry Robin worm is part of a complex and interconnected malware ecosystem, with links to other malware families and alternate infection methods beyond its original USB drive spread. These infections lead to follow-on...

Hackers spreading malware through images taken by James Webb Space Telescope

By Waqas Researchers have identified a new Golang-based malware campaign leveraging deep field images from the James Webb Space Telescope to deploy malware on infected devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers spreading malware through images taken by James Webb...

Nitrokod Crypto Miner Hiding in Fake Microsoft and Google Translate Apps

By Waqas Nitrokod crypto miner mines Monero XMR coin on infected devices and so far it has targeted 111,000 unsuspecting users in 11 countries. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nitrokod Crypto Miner Hiding in Fake Microsoft and Google Translate Apps...

Cyclops Blink malware: US and UK authorities issue alert

According to a joint security advisory published yesterday by US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies, a new malware called Cyclops Blink has surfaced to replace the VPNFilter malware attributed to the Sandworm group, which has always been seen as a Russian state-sponsored group...

Hackers Exploiting Infected Android Devices to Register Disposable Accounts

An analysis of SMS phone-verified account PVA services has led to the discovery of a rogue platform built atop a botnet involving thousands of infected Android phones, once again underscoring the flaws with relying on SMS for account validation. SMS PVA services, since gaining prevalence in 2018,...

Medusa Malware Joins Flubot’s Android Distribution Network

Flubot, the Android spyware that’s been spreading virally since last year, has hitched its infrastructure wagon up to another mobile threat known as Medusa. That’s according to ThreatFabric, which found that Medusa is now being distributed through the same SMS-phishing infrastructure as Flubot,...

About 10 million Android devices found infected with Cynos malware

By Waqas In total, researchers have identified around 190 malware-infected games, some of which were designed to target Russian and Chinese users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: About 10 million Android devices found infected with Cynos malware...

Candiru: Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer

Citizen Lab has identified yet another Israeli company that sells spyware to governments around the world: Candiru. From the report: Summary: Candiru is a secretive Israel-based company that sells spyware exclusively to governments. Reportedly, their spyware can infect and monitor iPhones,...

Hackers Crack Pirated Games with Cryptojacking Malware

A new Monero cryptojacking malware distributed via “cracked” versions of popular online games is wiping out antivirus programs AVs and surreptitiously mining cryptocurrency in more than a dozen countries, researchers have found. Dubbed “Crackonosh,” the malware — which has been active since June...