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An active malware campaign is leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities with remote code execution (RCE) functionality to rope routers and video recorders into a Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. “The payload targets routers and network video recorder (NVR) devices with default admin credentials and installs Mirai variants when successful,” Akamai said in an advisory published this […]
Misconfigured and poorly secured Apache Tomcat servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign designed to deliver the Mirai botnet malware and cryptocurrency miners. The findings come courtesy of Aqua, which detected more than 800 attacks against its Tomcat server honeypots over a two-year time period, with 96% of the attacks linked to […]
The infamous Mirai botnet lets threat actors use compromised devices to carry out large-scale and crippling DDoS attacks. Critical Microsoft Azure vulnerabilities reported and patched earlier this week are actively exploited by threat actors and cybercriminals. Dubbed the OMIGOD flaws; the vulnerabilities were originally discovered by the Wiz Research Team. READ: Microsoft warns of Azure […]
Yandex, a Russia-based technology and search engine giant, has confirmed that its servers were targeted with cyber history’s largest DDoS attack last week. In its blog post published on 9 September, Yandex revealed that the company discovered a powerful new network of botnets that have carried out DDoS attacks not just against Runet, Russia’s version […]
Kenneth Currin Schuchman, who is also known as Nexus Zeta from Vancouver, Canada, is the creator of deadly Mirai and Qbot-based botnet, has sentenced to 13 months in prison for hiring and promoting the Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets utilized in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world. Rather than Mirai, Kenneth Currin […]
Most Destructive IoT malware Mirai now being delivered as Miori and its spreading via dangerous remote code execution exploits. Mirai malware has strong records of infecting poorly managing IoT devices and performing DDOS attacks on various platforms. In order to run the malware on cross-platform, it must be able to run on different architectures without […]
Botnet of Smart Power-Consuming Appliances May Cause Widespread Power Outages. Digital technology has revolutionized the way we use appliances and perform day-to-day chores. Nowadays, our air conditioners are smart enough to be turned off or on remotely, washing machines send us a message to notify about finished laundry and refrigerators email us the grocery list. […]
A malicious code that reuses Mirai bot spreading by a worm to mine Monero cryptocurrency and this is the first time Android worm reuse Mirai bot. The infection spreads by scanning the 5555 adb port using the malicious code and this port is used by adb debug interface on Android. This port should basically shut down on […]
A new Linux malware has been spotted in the wild by security researchers at Eset, and it is much more sophisticated than any of the previously known Linux based malware. The security researchers have named this malware as “Linux/Shishiga” which utilizes four different protocols according to Eset research team. The protocols used are Telnet, HTTP and […]
[jpshare] Hajime Worm First Discovered on October 2016 and it used to spreads via unsecured devices with self-replication module that have open Telnet ports and use default passwords. Hajime Worm Battle with Mirai Botnet indicate that ,Hajime was specifically created to protect against Mirai . According to Symantec ,Unlike Mirai, which uses hardcoded addresses for […]
Short Bytes: The infamous Mirai botnet malware has finally entered the world of Microsoft Windows. An antivirus firm recently discovered a new variant of Mirai, which is now named Trojan.Mirai.1. The trojan uses Windows devices to increase Mirai’s botnet army by infecting Linux-based IoT devices. Notably, Mirai was the chief player in some of the biggest DDoS […]
Trustwave researchers have identified flaws in 31 Netgear router models, which may lead to hackers gaining full control of devices. Using these security flaws, any attacker can fully bypass the password on Netgear routers, modify the configuration, create an army of botnets by infecting multiple routers and develop entirely new firmware. The new vulnerabilities were identified […]
A lot of DDoS movement on the Internet begins from supposed ‘booter/stresser’ administrations, which are DDoS-for-contract administrations which let even unsophisticated clients to dispatch high-affect assaults. What’s more, as we will see, the perpetual rivalry for benefits in the outrightly illicit DDoS-for-contract industry can lead those included down some extremely abnormal ways, to be sure. […]
UK’s largest domain registrar provider 123-reg has become a victim of a DDoS attack after which its users couldn’t access their email accounts as well as websites. This is only the beginning of 2017 and the hosting platform has suffered another big blow. The news about these attack was announced formally by the company via […]
Short Bytes: Botnet 14, a Mirai botnet, has knocked offline the internet of an entire country. Over the week, Botnet 14 targetted Liberia, a little-known African country, and sent its internet systems offline multiple times. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont, who was one the first people to spot the attack, has said that “these attacks appear to […]
Short Bytes: Security researcher MalwareTech has created a live map that shows the attacks of Mirai botnet all around the world. Mirai botnet is responsible for one of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever seen in recent times. In a blog post, the researcher also stresses the need to replace default passwords of IoT devices […]