Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2017
The hacker BestBuy pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking more than 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom The notorious hacker BestBuy, also known as Popopret, pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking more than 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom. The 29-year-old man, whom name wasn’t revealed by authorities. used a custom version of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
A study conducted by the security firm Rapid7 revealed that millions of devices remain exposed to cyber attacks via SMB, Telnet, RDP, and other types of improper configurations. Rapid7 published the second report National Exposure Index that provides Internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide information about the global exposure of devices. The researchers scanned the Internet for improperly configured services, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2017
According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour DDoS attack. According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The new variant of the Mirai […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2017
Security experts from Trend Micro discovered a new family of Linux malware, tracked as ELF_IMEIJ, targeting AVTech surveillance devices. Security experts from Trend Micro discovered a new family of Linux malware that is targeting products from surveillance technology company AVTech exploiting a CGI vulnerability that was disclosed in 2016. According to Trend Micro, the flaw was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2017
The manufacture Dahua Technology has started releasing firmware updates fix a serious flaw in some models of its video recorders and IP cameras. Security experts believe the flaw is a true backdoor that could be used to remotely access the user database containing usernames and hashed passwords. The backdoor was discovered by a researcher that is known online as “bashis.” Once the attacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2017
The popular investigator Brian Krebs published the details of his investigation on the identity of the Mirai author Anna-Senpai. In the last months, the Mirai bot monopolized the attention of the media, it was used to power the massive DDoS attack against the Dyn DNS service causing an extended Internet outage. A large portion of Internet users […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2017
2016 was the biggest year by far for all sorts of bots. From Chatbots to bad bots, the past year was eventful to say the least. With more than 980+ cyber security breaches across all online businesses and 35 million accounts exposed. Yahoo! In a 2016 report, disclosed that more than 1 billion accounts have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2016
Many Sony cameras could be hijacked by hackers and infected with Mirai-like malware due to the presence of a sort of secret backdoor. Sony has closed a sort of debug backdoor that was spotted in 80 web-connected surveillance cameras. The hardcoded logins in the firmware of the Sony cameras can be exploited to hijack the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2016
Security experts from CloudFlare observed a new botnet that emerged in the wild and it could be dangerous as its predecessor Mirai. Which is the most dreaded botnet in the current threat landscape? The Mirai botnet of course, it was used by threat actors in the wild to power massive DDoS attack, such as the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2016
The hackers Popopret and BestBuy are offering a DDoS-for-hire service leveraging a Mirai botnet composed of around 400,000 compromised devices. We have written a lot about the Mirai botnet after the clamorous attacks against the Dyn DNS service and the OVH hosting, it is a dangerous threat that was designed to target IoT devices that could be used to power massive DDoS […]
