Collaborate Disseminate
The tool, called FBot, is capable of credential harvesting for spamming attacks, and AWS, PayPal and SaaS account hijacking.
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The U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In addition, a defendant in the United States was sentenced to drug treatment and 18 months community confinement for his admitted role in the conspiracy. Continue reading New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy
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
He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release. Continue reading Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty
Security researchers have come across an unusual new botnet that infects Android devices over the debugging interface then searches for and removes cryptocurrency malware. The new botnet, dubbed Fbot by researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab team, … Continue reading Unusual IoT Botnet Removes Cryptomining Malware from Devices