FritzFrog P2P Botnet Attacking Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

A peer-to-peer Golang botnet has resurfaced after more than a year to compromise servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors within a span of a month, infecting a total of 1,500 hosts. Dubbed FritzFrog, "the decentralized botnet targets any device that expos...

Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.gsy Unauthenticated Open Proxy

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/7e99aa748b61fd0802fa19cf9e4cf1f8.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.gsy Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Open Proxy Description: The malware listen...

Triple-Threat Cryptocurrency RAT Mines, Steals and Harvests

A previously undocumented malware family called KryptoCibule is mounting a three-pronged cryptocurrency-related attack, while also deploying remote-access trojan RAT functionality to establish backdoors to its victims. According to researchers at ESET, the malware has been seen targeting victims...

Video: One Minute Of Global Botnet Traffic

We write often about attacks linked to massive botnets like Cutwail, Sality and others. But what does botnet activity really look like, were you to visualize it? Security firm Unveillance has put together this short five minute video to help explain. In the video, Unveillance caputred one minute ...

New Worm Morto Using RDP to Infect Windows PCs

A new worm called Morto has begun making the rounds on the Internet in the last couple of days, infecting machines via RDP Remote Desktop Protocol. The worm is generating a large amount of outbound RDP traffic on networks that have infected machines, and Morto is capable of compromising both...

Mac OS X Ransomware 'A Matter of Time'

In need of a fresh example that cybercriminals are actively looking for ways to monetize infected Mac OS X hosts? Early-stage discussions at several web forums, including a PoC proof of concept, source code included Mac OS X blocker as well as potential GUIs for the ransomware, offer an insight...