Collaborate Disseminate
The Hoaxcalls campaign has provided a number of opportunities to explore the trials & errors in researching, developing, & building a botnet campaign.
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In the second edition of ‘Researchers Talk Live,’ Daniel Smith and Pascal Geenens geek out on what’s current in DDoS and IoT Botnets.
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Even though Hoaxcalls reuses code from botnets such as Tsunami, Gafgyt and Mirai, the tactics and methods leveraged by the operators warrants a review.
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Since the beginning of 2020, due to the COVID-2019 pandemic, life has shifted almost entirely to the Web. This is reflected in the goals of recent DDoS attacks, with the most targeted resources in Q1 being websites of medical organizations, delivery services, and gaming and educational platforms. Continue reading DDoS attacks in Q1 2020
The massive ICEBUCKET scheme has, so far, impersonated more than 2m people in 30+ countries, defrauding more than 300 brands of ad dollars. Continue reading Bot creates millions of fake eyeballs to rip off smart-TV advertisers
A report published by Radware finds well over half (58%) of the malicious bots tracked in February by the provider of IT security platforms can now mimic human behavior. Ben Zilberman, head of product marketing for application security at Radware, sai… Continue reading Radware Report: Malicious Bots More Human-Like
Criminals behind botnets Chalubo, FBot and Moobot attack unpatched vulnerabilities in the commercial DVRs made by LILIN. Continue reading Hackers Actively Exploit 0-Day in CCTV Camera Hardware
It is important that gaming companies are prepared to defend against threats to their consumers and that gamers understand the types of threats they can face in their community.
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Microsoft is trying to sink a vast network that cybercriminals have used for eight years to spread spam and hack computers throughout the globe. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has moved to disrupt the Necurs botnet, a network of more than 9 million computers that had been surreptitiously infected with malware and then used by hackers to carry out various schemes. Attackers, likely in Russia, according to Microsoft, used Necurs to distribute pharmaceutical spam, facilitate ransomware attacks and infect victims with numerous types of malicious software, such as the GameOver Zeus malware that is blamed for $100 million in losses. “The Necurs is one of the largest networks in the spam email threat ecosystem, with victims in nearly every country in the world,” Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust, said in a statement. “During a 58-day period in our investigation, for example, we observed that […]
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Kaspersky has continued to track the Roaming Mantis campaign. The group’s attack methods have improved and new targets continuously added in order to steal more funds. Continue reading Roaming Mantis, part V