Shodan’ Malware Hunter to Expose Command & Control Centers of Botnets

By Jahanzaib Hassan Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company together with Shodan, which is an internet search engine connecting services to internet devices, have created an online crawler which they call the Malware Hunter. What does it do? The Malware Hunter is a program that sends out...

Malware Hunter Crawls Internet Looking for RAT C2s

A new crawler released today by Shodan designed to find command and control servers has already unearthed 5,800 controllers for more than 10 remote access Trojan RAT families. The crawler, called Malware Hunter, poses as an infected computer beaconing out to an attacker’s server waiting for...

Malware Hunter — Shodan's new tool to find Malware C&C Servers

Rapidly growing, insecure internet-connected devices are becoming albatross around the necks of individuals and organizations with malware authors routinely hacking them to form botnets that can be further used as weapons in DDoS and other cyber attacks. But now finding malicious servers, hosted ...