Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2020
A joint operation conducted by FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumenâs Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and Microsoft aimed at takedown the TrickBot botnet. Microsoft’s Defender team, FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT, and Broadcom’s cyber-security division Symantec joint the forces and announced today a coordinated effort to take down the command and control infrastructure of the infamous TrickBot botnet. The experts that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
Security researchers provided technical details about an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint that has been exploiting two zero-days in Tenda routers Security researchers at Netlab, the network security division Qihoo 360, have published a report that details an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint. The experts are monitoring the Mirai-based botnet since November 2019 and observed it exploiting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2020
A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. According to security firm Tencent, the team of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2020
Researchers from White Ops discovers several Android apps in the official Play store which installed on users’ mobile devices the Terracotta ad fraud malware. Researchers from security firm White Ops discovered several Android apps in the official Play Store that installed a hidden browser to load pages containing ad and commit ad fraud. The company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2020
In August, the Emotet botnet operators switched to a new template, named ‘Red Dawn,’ for the malicious attachments employed in new campaigns. The notorious Emotet went into the dark since February 2020, but after months of inactivity, the infamous trojan has surged back in July with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The Emotet banking trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2020
Researchers spotted a new sophisticated peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, dubbed FritzFrog, that has been actively targeting SSH servers since January 2020. FritzFrog is a new sophisticated botnet that has been actively targeting SSH servers worldwide since January 2020. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2020
Security researchers have discovered a new crypto-minining botnet, dubbed TeamTNT, that is able to steal AWS credentials from infected servers. Security firm Cado Security reported that the TeamTNT botnet is the first one that is able to scan and steal AWS credentials. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2020
Experts spotted an undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to evade detection and targets publicly accessible Docker servers Cybersecurity researchers at Intezer spotted a new completely undetectable Linux malware, dubbed Doki, that exploits undocumented evasion techniques while targeting publicly accessible Docker servers. The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2020
Prometei is a crypto-mining botnet that recently appeared in the threat landscape, it exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements. Security experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Prometei, that exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol for lateral movements.move laterally across systems while covertly mining for cryptocurrency. The Prometei […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2020
After months of inactivity, the infamous Emotet trojan has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The notorious Emotet went into the dark since February 2020, but now has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, […]
