Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2023
Researchers warn that the MyloBot botnet is rapidly spreading and it is infecting thousands of systems worldwide. The MyloBot botnet has been active since 2017 and was first detailed by cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct in 2018. MyloBot is a highly evasive Windows botnet that supports advanced anti-analysis techniques. The first sample of the bot analyzed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2023
During the second half of 2022, a variant of the Mirai bot, tracked as V3G4, targeted IoT devices by exploiting tens of flaws. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers reported that a Mirai variant called V3G4 was attempting to exploit several flaws to infect IoT devices from July to December 2022. Below is the list […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2023
Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) that reached 71 Million requests per second. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record hyper-volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). The company pointed out that this is the largest reported HTTP distributed denial-of-service attack on record, the volume was more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2022
Microsoft spotted an upgraded variant of the Zerobot botnet that spreads by exploiting Apache vulnerabilities. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2022
The Glupteba botnet is back, researchers reported a surge in infection worldwide after Google disrupted its operation in 2021. In December 2021, Google announced it has taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba botnet, it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet. The blockchain-enabled botnet has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2022
Microsoft announced that a botnet dubbed MCCrash is launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. Microsoft spotted a cross-platform botnet, tracked as MCCrash, which has been designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. The IT giant tracks this cluster of activity as DEV-1028. The experts report that the botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2022
Researchers discovered a new Go-based botnet, dubbed GoTrim, attempting to brute force WordPress websites. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a new Go-based botnet, dubbed GoTrim, that has been spotted scanning and brute-forcing WordPress and OpenCart websites. The botnet was named GoTrim because it was written in Go and uses â:::trim:::â to split data sent and received […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2022
Researchers discovered a new Go-based botnet called Zerobot that exploits two dozen security vulnerabilities IoT devices. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered a new Go-based botnet called Zerobot that spreads by exploiting two dozen security vulnerabilities in the internet of things (IoT) devices and other applications. “This botnet, known as Zerobot, contains several modules, including self-replication, attacks for different protocols, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2022
The Emotet malware is back and experts warn of a high-volume malspam campaign delivering payloads like IcedID and Bumblebee. Proofpoint researchers warn of the return of the Emotet malware, in early November the experts observed a high-volume malspam campaign delivering payloads like IcedID and Bumblebee. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2022
Fortinet researchers discovered new samples of RapperBot used to build a botnet to launch Distributed DDoS attacks against game servers. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered new samples of the RapperBot malware that are being used to build a DDoS botnet to target game servers. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs discovered the previously undetected RapperBot IoT […]
