botnet

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2018
Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape

Security experts from Sophos Labs have spotted a new piece of IoT malware tracked as Chalubo that is attempting to recruit devices into a botnet used to launch DDoS attacks. Security experts from Sophos Labs have spotted a new piece of Linux malware tracked as Chalubo (ChaCha-Lua-bot) that is targeting IoT devices in an attempt to recruit them into […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2018
Expert presented a new attack technique to compromise MikroTik Routers

Experts from Tenable Research have devised a new attack technique to fully compromise MikroTik Routers. MikroTik routers continue to be under attack, and the situation is getting worse because of the availability of a new PoC code. The new attack technique discovered by experts at Tenable Research could be exploited by remote attackers to execute […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2018
Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT Botnet targets Android devices with ADB option enabled

The latest samples of the HNS bot were designed to target Android devices having the wireless debugging feature ADB enabled. The Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT botnet was first spotted early this year, since its discovery the authors continuously evolved its code. The IoT botnet appeared in the threat landscape in January, when it was first discovered on January 10th […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2018
New Virobot malware combines ransomware and botnet capabilities

Security experts from Trend Micro discovered a new malware tracked as Virobot that combines ransomware and botnet capabilities. Virobot encrypts files on infected machines and is also implements spam botnet abilities and leverages it target other systems. Virobot was first spotted on September 17, 2018, experts pointed out that it is not associated with any known ransomware […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2018
Kelihos botmaster pleads guilty in U.S. District Court in Connecticut

The creator of the infamous Kelihos Botnet, Peter Yuryevich Levashov (38) pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. Yuryevich Levashov (38), the botmaster of the dreaded Kelihos Botnet pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. In April 2017, the United States Department of Justice announced that Peter […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2018
Mirai and Gafgyt target Apache Struts and SonicWall to hit enterprises

Security experts with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new variants of the Mirai and Gafgyt IoT malware targeting enterprises. Both botnets appear very interesting for two main reasons: The new Mirai variant targets the same Apache Struts vulnerability exploited in the 2017 Equifax data breach. The vulnerability affects the Jakarta Multipart parser upload […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2018
Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy

Today I’d like to share a full path analysis including a KickBack attack which took me to gain full access to an entire Ursniff/Gozi botnet. In other words:  from a simple “Malware Sample” to “Pwn the Attacker Infrastructure”. NB: Federal Police have already been alerted on such a topic as well as National and International […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2018
Federal prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old man who built the Satori botnet

A youngster (20) from Washington was indicted last week on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori. MalwareMustDie Team: “It’s time for every teenager or young man to know that playing with malware is the fastest way to finish in the jail” Mirai, Mirai […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2018
A new Cross-Platform Mirai Variant appeared in the wild

A new cross-platform Mirai variant appeared in the threat landscape, this one has been created using an open-source project. Security experts from Symantec have spotted a new cross-platform Mirai variant that has been created with an open-source project. Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2018
Piping botnet: Researchers warns of possible cyberattacks against urban water services

Piping botnet – Israeli researchers warn of a potential distributed attack against urban water services that uses a botnet of smart irrigation systems that water simultaneously. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) cyber security researchers warn of a potential distributed attack against urban water services that uses a botnet of smart irrigation systems that water […]