The Russian-speaking APT behind the NotPetya attacks and the Ukrainian power grid takedown could be setting up for additional sinister attacks, researchers said.
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Qakbot Botnet Sprouts Fangs, Injects Malware into Email Threads
The ever-shifting, ever-more-powerful malware is now hijacking email threads to download malicious DLLs that inject password-stealing code into webpages, among other foul things.
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Massive Meris Botnet Embeds Ransomware Notes from REvil
Notes threatening to tank targeted companies’ stock price were embedded into the DDoS ransomware attacks as a string_of_text directed to CEOs and webops_geeks in the URL.
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Baby Golang-Based Botnet Already Pulling in $3K/Month for Operators
Kraken has already spread like wildfire, but in the past few months, the malware’s author has been tinkering away, adding more infostealers and backdoors.
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BotenaGo Botnet Code Leaked to GitHub
The malware had already put millions of routers and IoT devices at risk, and now any noob can have at it.
Moobot Botnet Chews Up Hikvision Surveillance Systems
Attackers are milking unpatched Hikvision video systems to drop a DDoS botnet, researchers warned.
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Google Takes Down Glupteba Botnet; Files Lawsuit Against Operators
The malware’s unique blockchain-enabled backup C2 scheme makes it difficult to eliminate completely.
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AT&T Takes Steps to Mitigate Botnet Found Inside Its Network
AT&T is battling a modular malware called EwDoor on 5,700 VoIP servers, but it could have a larger wildcard certificate problem.
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Yandex Pummeled by Potent Meris DDoS Botnet
Record-breaking distributed denial of service attack targets Russia’s version of Google – Yandex.
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