ESET cyber security experts: Before that, it performed click fraud, ad injection, social network fraud and password stealing attacks. It targets Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab cyber security experts: The GoLand written botnet is more powerful, with new brute forcing modules. Targets are in EMEA region, Italy included, but no Russia.
Guardicore Labs cyber security experts: Only in August the malware infected over 90,000 machines worldwide. It exploits brute force and EternalBlue for cryptomining.
The cyber security experts: The malware controlled over 850,000 computers, mainly in Latin America, to create Monero; but the cybercrime C&C servers were in Paris Region and USA.
Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab cyber security experts: It’s compiled for Linux. The malware is targeting hundred of thousand WordPress powered websites, and part of them are related to Italy.
The cyber security expert Larry Cashdollar: It has already hit over 2,000 devices. The author, the 14-year-old Light Leafon, now want to expand it adding more functions and exploits.
Bromium cyber security experts: More than a dozen US-based web servers were used to host families: 5 banking trojan, 2 ransomware and 3 information steeler.
The Communications Authority (CA): Explosion of malware and DDoS attacks, and online abuse. Targetsare end-users who have limited cyber security skills.
Cofense cyber security experts: The malware is trying to evade detection and uses JavaScript files as droppers instead of macro-packed Office documents.