Cybercrime, Hikvision products targeted by Moobot
Fortinet cybersecurity experts: Threat actors leverage the critical vulnerability CVE-2021-36260 to install and run the malware, a Mirai botnet variant.
Cybercrime, Emotet is back with the “Operation Reacharound”
Cryptolaemus cybersecurity experts: It is spread via spam emails with a zip, an xls or a doc attachment, which downloads a dll starting the malware infection.
Cybercrime, here it comes Mēris: a new and powerful botnet
Qrator cybersecurity experts: It has been used to a huge DDoS attack on Yandex (21.8 rps). Bots are devices connected through Ethernet connection – network.
Cybercrime, the most powerful DDoS attack ever: 1.72 million rps
Cloudflare cybersecurity experts: The aggression was launched by more than 20,000 Mirai’s bots in 125 countries. Many of them originated from Indonesia, India and Brazil.
Cybercrime, Sysrv-hello looks for vulnerabilities in Windows or Linux for cryptomining
Alibaba Cloud cybersecurity experts: The botnet uses a single binary to extract and sneak automatically malware onto other devices.
Cybercrime, Prometei botnet exploits some Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities
Cybereason cybersecurity experts: The malware can infect both Windows and Linux systems and has been upgraded with backdoor capabilities.
Cybercrime, the Gafgyt botnet exploits Mirai code
Uptycs cybersecurity experts: The Linux malware, aka Bashlite, mainly targets vulnerable IoT devices and reuses some modules from the old botnet.
Cybercrime, new Dridex campaign via invoices and Cutwail botnet
The email xlsm attachment contacts a random link from an internal list and downloads the DLL, which starts the malware infection chain.
The Netherlands Police chases cybercrime actors on hacker forums
“We aim at botnets and related malware like Ryuk, Trickbot and many more. Everyone makes mistakes, we are waiting for yours”.
Cybercrime, the invoice-themed Dridex campaign is back
The xlsm attachment, distributed by the Cutwail botnet, contacts a random link from internal list and downloads the malware.