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Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2020
New MrbMiner malware infected thousands of MSSQL DBs

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
Google removed malicious Terracotta apps from the Play Store

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
Emotet botnet has begun to use a new ‘Red Dawn’ template

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
FritzFrog cryptocurrency P2P botnet targets Linux servers over SSH

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
TeamTNT is the first cryptomining bot that steals AWS credentials

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
Doki, an undetectable Linux backdoor targets Docker Servers

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, a new modular crypto-mining botnet exploits Windows SMB

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
Emotet botnet surges back after months of absence

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, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 14, 2020
New Mirai variant includes exploit for a flaw in Comtrend Routers

Researchers spotted a new version of the Mirai IoT botnet that includes an exploit for a vulnerability affecting Comtrend routers. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new version of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that includes an exploit for the CVE-2020-10173 vulnerability impacting Comtrend routers. The Mirai botnet was first discovered in August 2016 by […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2020
Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Kenneth Currin Schuchman, 22, of Vancouver, Washington, was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison because it has developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the source code of Mirai botnet. […]