Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2024
Akamai researchers discovered a new Mirai botnet variant targeting a vulnerability in DigiEver DS-2105 Pro DVRs. Akamai researchers spotted a Mirai-based botnet that is exploiting an remote code execution vulnerability in DigiEver DS-2105 Pro NVRs. The experts pointed out that this Mirai variant has been modified to use improved encryption algorithms. The Mirai variant incorporates ChaCha20 and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2024
Experts uncovered a botnet of 190,000 Android devices infected by BadBox bot, primarily Yandex smart TVs and Hisense smartphones. Bitsight researchers uncovered new BADBOX infrastructure, company’s telemetry shows that over 192,000 devices were infected with the BADBOX bot. The botnet includes 160,000 previously unseen devices, notably Yandex 4K QLED Smart TVs and T963 Hisense Smartphones. Most […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2024
The German agency BSI has sinkholed a botnet composed of 30,000 devices shipped with BadBox malware pre-installed. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) announced it had blocked communication between the 30,000 devices infected with the BadBox malware and the C2. The devices were all located in Germany, they were all using outdated Android versions. “The Federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2024
China’s Volt Typhoon botnet has re-emerged, using the same core infrastructure and techniques, according to SecurityScorecard researchers. The China-linked Volt Typhoon’s botnet has resurfaced using the same infrastructure and techniques, per SecurityScorecard researchers. In May 2023, Microsoft reported that the Volt Typhoon APT infiltrated critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. and Guam without being detected. The group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2024
Researchers warn of a new IoT botnet called Raptor Train that already compromised over 200,000 devices worldwide. Cybersecurity researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new botnet, named Raptor Train, composed of small office/home office (SOHO) and IoT devices. The experts believe the botnet is controlled by a Chine-linked APT group Flax Typhoon (also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2024
The Quad7 botnet evolves and targets new SOHO devices, including Axentra media servers, Ruckus wireless routers and Zyxel VPN appliances. The Sekoia TDR team identified additional implants associated with the Quad7 botnet operation. The botnet operators are targeting multiple SOHO devices and VPN appliances, including TP-LINK, Zyxel, Asus, D-Link, and Netgear, exploiting both known and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2024
Researchers uncovered a new Golang-based botnet called Zergeca that can carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Researchers at the QiAnXin XLab team uncovered a new Golang-based botnet called Zergeca that can carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. On May, 2024, the researchers detected a suspicious ELF file at /usr/bin/geomi that was uploaded from Russia to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2024
OVHcloud successfully mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack in April, which reached 840 million packets per second (Mpps). The cloud services provider OVHcloud announced it has mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this year. The attack reached a record packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps). “Our infrastructures had to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2024
Researchers warn that a Mirai-based botnet is exploiting a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in EoL Zyxel NAS devices. Researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation warn that a Mirai-based botnet has started exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-29973 (CVSS score 9.8) in end-of-life NAS devices Zyxel NAS products. The flaw is a command injection vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2024
The Chalubo trojan destroyed over 600,000 SOHO routers from a single ISP, researchers from Lumen Technologies reported. Between October 25 and October 27, 2023, the Chalubo malware destroyed more than 600,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers belonging to the same ISP. Black Lotus did not name the impacted ISP, however, Bleeping Computer speculates the attack […]
