NOKKI Malware Sports Mysterious Link to Reaper APT Group
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New Drone ‘Cockpits’ Aim to Make Remote Warfare Feel More Real
Improved ergonomics alone can’t lift the moral burden on drone operators far removed from the battlefield, for whom life-or-death decisions are all in a day’s work. Continue reading New Drone ‘Cockpits’ Aim to Make Remote Warfare Feel More Real
Hacker selling classified information on MQ-9 Reaper Drone on dark web
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While No One Is Looking, Trump Is Escalating America’s Drone War
In expanding US drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan, Trump has “shredded” Obama-era safeguards to minimizing the risk of civilian casualties. Continue reading While No One Is Looking, Trump Is Escalating America’s Drone War
Sierra Wireless Patches Critical Vulns in Range of Wireless Routers
The flaws would leave the enterprise devices helpless to a range of remote threats, including the charms of the Reaper IoT botnet. Continue reading Sierra Wireless Patches Critical Vulns in Range of Wireless Routers
Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks
Researchers said a Mirai botnet variant, possibly linked to the IoTroop or Reaper botnet, was leveraged in attacks against the financial sector. Continue reading Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks
JenX Botnet Has Grand Theft Auto Hook
A GTA hosting site is offering powerful DDoS attacks for $20 a pop, researchers say. Continue reading JenX Botnet Has Grand Theft Auto Hook
Reaper authors Chinese, possibly linked to cyberspy group ‘Black Vine’
The authors of a sophisticated strain of malware that’s been attacking internet of things devices are almost certainly Chinese and could be connected to a Beijing-linked cyber-espionage group believed behind the Anthem health insurance hack, according to new research. Check Point Technologies — the Israeli cyber outfit that was the first to publicly identify the malware, known variously as Reaper or IoTroop — said in a technical report released this weekend that the malware authors and operators are operating out of China. “We have a very high degree of confidence about that judgement,” Yaniv Balmas, the firm’s security research group manager told CyberScoop. His conclusion comes from multiple independent factors. A unique feature of the malware, Balmas noted, was its use of a Lua environment. Lua is a lightweight, embeddable programming language designed to enable scripts to run. “We’ve never seen it [used in malware] before,” said Balmas, adding it made the malware “very agile … […]
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Don’t fear the Reaper: Botnet ‘easy to stop,’ says security researcher
The new Internet of Things botnet variously known as Reaper, IoT_Reaper or IoTroop should be easy to stop if it ever attacks, a security researcher says. Reaper uses fixed, hardcoded domain and internet addresses for its command and control, or C2, servers — meaning they can easily be cut off by service providers, Radware security researcher Pascal Geenens wrote earlier this week. “The control servers, the architecture and the methods of operation of the Reaper botnet have been uncovered and are known,” Geenens wrote. “It uses a fixed domain and IP addresses for its C2 servers, which should make blacklisting or blackholing effective to stop any attacks it might attempt.” Although the hacker that controls the botnet — the “herder” — has proved successful at building it up, the botnet has not yet been used for attacks. But there’s widespread concern nonetheless about how powerful a weapon it could be. The Mirai botnet brought the […]
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IoT Reaper Botnet Is Much Smaller Than Initially Believed
Security researchers warned last week that attackers are building a massive botnet of more than a million routers and wireless cameras. However, additional research has revealed that the number of devices actually enslaved by the botnet is only around 20,000, for now. “Over a million organizations have already been affected worldwide, including [in] the U.S.,..
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