Botnets

A hacker has taken over at least 29 IoT botnets

Hacker "Subby" brute-forces the backends of 29 IoT botnets that were using weak or default credentials. A hacker that goes…

5 years ago

US Government proposed an amendment to fight botnets

Obama Administration proposes giving courts more power to issue botnet injunctions, a measure necessary to fight the diffusion of malicious…

9 years ago

Nemanja, a botnet of thousand POSs, Grocery Management and Accounting Systems

Experts at Intelligence firm IntelCrawler have detected a new botnet dubbed Nemanja composed by compromised POS terminals, accounting systems and grocery management platforms.…

10 years ago

The Extortion is a common practice in the cyber criminal ecosystem

According principal security firms, extortion, ransom and blackmail are pillars of illicit activities, cyber criminals are adapting them to the…

10 years ago

Fraudulent infrastructure behind 5M harvested Russian phone numbers service

Danchev profiling a service which proposes more than 5M harvested mobile phone numbers has discovered a fraudulent architecture used for…

10 years ago

NSA programs MYSTIC and RETRO spies phone calls on global scale, also on past conversations

Documents leaked by Snowden reveals that NSA has built a surveillance system capable of recording all the phone calls of…

10 years ago

QUANTUMHAND – NSA impersonates Facebook to inject malware

Recent revelations on TURBINE platform include also a disturbing truth, NSA used QUANTUMHAND exploits to implant malware in Facebook users'…

10 years ago

TURBINE, how NSA has plundered botnets to the cybercrime

TURBINE is the codename for a sophisticated hacking platform to take control of C&C servers managed by cybercrime. The NSA…

10 years ago

Profiling hacking for hire services offered in the underground

Security expert Dancho Danchev profiled hacking for hire services offered in the underground, providing an indication of their prices. In…

10 years ago

Discovered thousands of FTP servers infected by malware

Hold Security reported it has discovered a list of credentials for close to 7,800 FTP servers being circulated in cybercrime…

10 years ago

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