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Hackers Changing the Main Attack Vector from RDP Compromise to Botnets For Network Breach

The ransomware evolution re-shaping the cyber domain, starting from 2019 the ransomware attacks against high-profile public and corporate networks by making criminal alliances. In 2018, threat actors behind GandCrab ransomware launched their Ransomware-as-a-Service which shifts the paradigm and turns the ransomware a full-fledged business with Branding, marketing, outreach. Threat Actor Group Truniger Truniger also known […]

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Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers

A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent people. Extortion by email is growing significantly, with a large number of users recently complaining about receiving sextortion emails […]

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MasterMana botnet hits users by evading detection with URL shorteners

MasterMana botnet is part of an ongoing malware campaign. The IT security researchers at Prevailion have discovered an active botnet that has been targeting corporations and unsuspected users across the globe. Dubbed MasterMana by researchers; the botnet utilizes every available option to target its victims including dropping backdoors and phishing attacks through business email compromise […]

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Hackers invested only $160 USD in a phishing campaign that infected over 70k victims. How did they do it?

Information security specialists have revealed details about a recent cybercriminal campaign identified as “MasterMana Botnet”, related to multiple key concepts in the world of cybersecurity, such as the use of botnet, backdoors, theft of cryptocurrency, among others. Experts estimate that thousands of companies around the world have already been attacked by the operators of this […]

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New Android banking botnet ‘Geost’ hits thousands of devices

Currently, users mostly from in Eastern Europe & Russia are being targeted by this botnet. Recently, researchers from the Czech Technical University, UNCOYO University based in Argentina and Avast Security have found an Android botnet named Geost by collaborating in on the investigations and have presented it at the Virus Bulletin 2019 conference held in […]

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Thousands of Windows PCs infected by Nodersok/Divergent fileless malware

Divergent or Nodersok? A new fileless malware emerges in the wild. The payload termed “Divergent” by Cisco Talos Researchers and “Nodersok” by Microsoft utilizes Node.exe – an implementation by Microsoft of NodeJS – along with a legitimate program named WinDivert – a packet capture tool – to make up the malware. According to Microsoft, thousands […]

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Destructive Malware Botnet “Emotet” Is Making A Comeback

Emotet, a deadly malware botnet, has started a new spam email campaign after being underground for nearly four months, a security researcher confirmed to ZDNet. According to Raashid Bhat, Emotet is sending spam emails that are laced with malware attachments and/or download links to malware embedded files. Emotet is fully back in action and spamming. […]

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The school kid who hacked over a million IoT devices

Not all young people use their potential for the best purposes. According to ethical hacking specialists, the young man Kenneth Currin Schuchman, while unemployed and without completing his high school studies, decided to hack nearly a million Internet-connected devices using the code of an infamous botnet. The 21-year-old claimed to have participated in the creation […]

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Meet Retadup botnet that was infected by another malware

Avast and French authorities have now dismantled the nasty Retadup botnet.  With the advent of cryptocurrencies, we have seen a gold rush surrounding them, particularly because of the opportunities Bitcoin once presented. This has also resulted in black hats exploiting the ecosystem to illegally mine certain cryptocurrencies as it directly translates to cash. One such […]

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Avast And French Cops Save 850,000 PCs From Retadup Crypto Malware

Avast has managed to take down the Retadup crypto-mining worm disinfecting more than 850,000 computers, with the help of French National Gendarmerie, the antivirus maker announced in a blog post. The security researchers at Avast discovered a design flaw in the communications protocol of Retadup that allowed the team to remove the malware from the […]

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French Police Remotely Removed RETADUP Malware from 850,000 Infected PCs

The French law enforcement agency, National Gendarmerie, today announced the successful takedown of one of the largest wide-spread RETADUP botnet malware and how it remotely disinfected more than 850,000 computers worldwide with the help of researchers. Earlier this year, security researchers at Avast antivirus firm, who were actively monitoring the activities of RETADUP botnet, discovered […]

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Nasty Botnet Neutrino Caught Hacking Other Hackers’ Web Shells

A crypto mining botnet operation, going for almost a year, is hijacking web shells of other hackers, according to report from Positive Technologies. Researchers have linked the source of the dangerous botnet to Neutrino gang. Back in 2017, Neutrino (aka Kasidet) was a dangerous trojan that launched DDoS attacks, recorded keystrokes and installed malware on […]

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New Miori Malware Uses Text-based Protocol to Communicate with C&C Server for Launching a DDoS Attack

A new Mirai variant dubbed Miori uses text-based protocols to establish communication with command-and-control (C&C) servers. The Miori campaign was identified in last year December, exploiting vulnerability n the ThinkPHP programming framework. Miori targets IoT devices and exploits them by taking advantage of the vulnerabilities and integrate them to the botnet network to launch various […]

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4 Most Memorable Botnet In History

What is Botnets? Botnets are artificial networks created by malware, which can be controlled by the virus author remotely. Here in Hackercombat.com, we have featured stories of companies which had their devices becoming a member of botnets without them knowing. Being a member of a botnet means the infected devices are kept running as usual, […]

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New Electrum DDoS botnet steals $4.6M after infecting 152,000 hosts

The majority of the bots are located in Brazil and Peru but the number of victims is constantly increasing across diverse regions. Threat actors who previously targeted cryptocurrency wallets through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have now launched another malware loader to facilitate their botnet Trojan. This time, they have used the Smoke Loader […]

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Create your own BotNet (Step By Step tutorial)

As per ethical hacking consultants, malware has been around in internet worlds from long years. The more new technology comes more malware are spreaded over the internet. Today we will talk about botnet. Botnet is created by infected malware after which bot is circulated over a network. In scenario of infecting large computers botnet is […]

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Hackers Offered IoT Botnet as Service “TheMoon” : Botnet-as-a-Service

TheMoon botnet was first identified in 2014 and it targets exploits on the router developed by companies such as Linksys, ASUS, MikroTik and D-Link. The botnet operators used the proxy botnet for various activities such as brute forc, video advertisement fraud, general traffic obfuscation and more. To expand the botnet the threat actor will continuously […]

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