In the first half of 2019, Kaspersky registered 9 times as many attacks on its Internet of Things (IoT) honeypots as it did in the same period last year, a new report shows. Honeypots are decoy …
Tactics of Supply-Chain Attack Group Exposed
Recent research by ESET has uncovered some of the tactics and tools used by the Winnti hacking group that has been carrying out supply-chain attacks against gaming companies since at least 2011. The …
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Dutch police take down hornets’ nest of DDoS botnets
A "bulletproof" hosting provider used by cybercriminals to host dozens of Internet-of-things (IoT) botnets has been taken down by Dutch police. The company, called KV Solutions BV, was popular among …
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Avast Maker Team WIth Police To Free 850,000 Computers From Cryptomining Malware
In a collaborative effort, security researchers with Avast and the French police took down a massive cryptomining botnet earlier this year. The botnet consisted of 850,000 machines that were infected …
Smominru hijacks half a million PCs to mine cryptocurrency, steals access data for Dark Web sale
Carbon Black researchers are tracking a cryptomining campaign that has already infected more that 500,000 machines with Smominru malware that enslaves them into a massive botnet. According …
GoBotKR Targets Pirate Torrents to Build a DDoS Botnet
Threat actors are distributing malware via torrent sites in order to build a botnet, new ESET research shows. The malware, referred to as GoBotKR, is hidden in pirated copies of South Korean films, TV …
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New Silex malware is bricking IoT devices, has scary plans
A researcher with Akamai has uncovered a highly destructive campaign that is rendering thousands of Internet-of-things (IoT) devices useless by wiping their firmware. The malware used to "brick" IoT …
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Botnets shift from Windows towards Linux and IoT platforms
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks carried out by botnets continue to be a major threat to websites, although attacks on Windows systems are declining in favor of campaigns targeting Linux …
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New GoldBrute Botnet is Trying to Hack 1.5 Million RDP Servers
A researcher with Morphus Labs has uncovered a botnet that is scanning the Internet for Windows machines that have a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection enabled. The botnet, dubbed …
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Mirai Variant Goes After Enterprise Systems
Researchers with Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 have discovered a campaign targeting wireless presentation and display systems used by enterprises. The campaign was launched in January and involves a new …
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