Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2019
The British hacker Daniel Kaye has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the cyberattack on Liberian telecom firms. The British hacker Daniel Kaye (29) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the 2016 attack that took down telecommunications services in Liberia. Kaye pleaded guilty in December to two charges under the Computer Misuse […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2018
Security experts from Netscout Asert discovered more than ten Mirai bot variants attempting to exploit a recently disclosed flaw in Hadoop YARN on Intel servers. These Mirai variants are the first one that doesn’t target Internet of Things devices, the bot was specifically developed to target Linux servers. The Hadoop YARN is vulnerability is a command injection […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2018
Paras Jha (22), the author of the Mirai botnet has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to pay $8.6 million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. A New Jersey court sentenced the author of the Mirai botnet, Paras Jha, 22, of Fanwood, after pleading guilty to violating […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. I’m following the evolution of Mirai botnet since MalwareMustDie shared with me the findings of its investigation in August 2016. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2018
Security experts with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new variants of the Mirai and Gafgyt IoT malware targeting enterprises. Both botnets appear very interesting for two main reasons: The new Mirai variant targets the same Apache Struts vulnerability exploited in the 2017 Equifax data breach. The vulnerability affects the Jakarta Multipart parser upload […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2018
A new cross-platform Mirai variant appeared in the threat landscape, this one has been created using an open-source project. Security experts from Symantec have spotted a new cross-platform Mirai variant that has been created with an open-source project. Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2018
Security experts are warning of an intensification of attacks powered by two notorious IoT botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt. Security experts are warning of a new wave of attacks powered by two botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt. Since the code of the infamous Mirai botnet was leaked online many variants emerged in the threat landscape. Satori, Masuta, Wicked Mirai, JenX, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2018
This week, security experts observed a surge in port 8000 scan activity, researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab determined that the unusual activity was associated with Satori IoT botnet. Experts from Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered that the author of the Satori botnet have integrated a the proof-of-concept (PoC) code for the XionMai web server software package after it was […]
