Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence experts analysed botnet sales on the dark web and shadow Telegram channels and discovered that attackers can acquire ready-made solutions starting at $99. Besides one-time purchases, botnets can be hired or acquiredRead More…
ESET Research released today its deep-dive investigation into one of the most advanced server-side malware campaigns, which is still growing and has seen hundreds of thousands of compromised servers in its at least 15-year-long operation.Read More…
The Proofpoint Threat Research Team reveals that beginning April 24, 2024, and continuing daily for about a week. Proofpoint observed high-volume campaigns with millions of messages facilitated by the Phorpiex botnet and delivering LockBit Black ransomware.Read More…
Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, announced the latest semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report. Threat intelligence from the first half of 2021 demonstrates a significant increase in the volume and sophistication of attacks targeting individuals, organizations, and increasingly critical infrastructure.Read More…
ESET researchers have participated in a global operation to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, which has, since 2016, infected over a million computing devices. Along with partners Microsoft, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs Threat Research, NTT and others, the operation impacted Trickbot by tanking their command and control servers.Read More…
ESET researchers have recently discovered an unknown cryptomining botnet, VictoryGate that has been active since at least May 2019, and is composed mainly of devices in Peru, where over 90% of the infected devices are located. Read More…
A massive 13-day long Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a single online service has been launched by a Mirai-based botnet, according to Imperva. The botnet, which was observed coordinating 402,000 different IPs, most of which are apparently located in Brazil, was using Internet of Things (IoT) devices withRead More…
A new variant of the Mirai botnet has been found to use as many as 13 different exploits to target routers and other IoT devices. The malware, called Backdoor.Linux.MIRAI.VWIPT, includes both backdoor and DDoS capabilities. The Mirai variant uses three XOR keys to encrypt data and uses four different URLsRead More…
