Collaborate Disseminate
In the latest episode of Radware Threat Researchers Live, Daniel Smith and Pascal Geenens discuss what’s new in botnets.
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A U.S. judge sentenced a Russian national to eight years in prison over his role in stealing personal and financial information via a botnet conspiracy that aimed to generate an estimated $100 million. Prosecutors announced the sentence Monday for Aleksandr Brovko, who pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud. From 2007 to 2019, according to the Department of Justice, Brovko collaborated with other cybercriminals to turn data troves harvested by botnets — networks of infected computers — into cash. Brovko’s role was to write software scripts to go through botnet logs and conduct data searches to extract highly sensitive personal information and online banking credentials, as well as scout out the value of compromised accounts to determine whether they’d be worth using to conduct fraud. In all, prosecutors said, Brovko possessed and trafficked more than 200,000 “unauthorized access devices,” a term for credit cards, mobile identification […]
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If Q2 2020 surprised us with an unusually high number of DDoS attacks for this period, the Q3 figures point to a normalization. Judging by the number of unique targets, in comparison with last quarter, cybercriminals were more attracted by European, and less by the Asian countries. Continue reading DDoS attacks in Q3 2020
Earlier this month, we learned that someone is disrupting the TrickBot botnet network.
Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malw… Continue reading US Cyber Command and Microsoft Are Both Disrupting TrickBot
A relatively new player in the threat arena, the Mozi botnet, has spiked among Internet of things (IoT) devices, IBM X-Force has discovered. This malware has been active since late 2019 and has code overlap with Mirai and its variants. Mozi accounted for nearly 90% of the observed IoT network traffic from October 2019 through […]
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The on-going effects of the pandemic are impacting businesses’ cybersecurity. Here are the latest cyberthreats CIOs need to be aware of in the APAC region.
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The second quarter is normally calmer than the first, but this year is an exception. The long-term downward trend in DDoS-attacks has unfortunately been interrupted, and this time we are witnessing an increase. Continue reading DDoS attacks in Q2 2020
Black Hat 2020 session discusses how high-wattage connected devices like dishwashers and heating systems can be recruited into botnets and used to manipulate energy markets. Continue reading Black Hat 2020: Using Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets for Big Profits
By investigating a number of targeted ransomware attacks and through discussions with some of our trusted industry partners, we feel that we now have a good grasp on how the ransomware ecosystem is structured. Continue reading Lazarus on the hunt for big game
Hopefully it’s a COVID-19 version of what it did post-2016 elections, when it required verification of those buying political or issue ads. Continue reading Facebook to verify identities on accounts that churn out viral posts