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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet used in distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers from netw…
Mirai-based botnet InfectedSlurs has been spotted exploiting two zero-day RCE flaws to compromise routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. Akamai discovered a new Mirai-based DDoS botnet, named InfectedSlurs, actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The researchers discovered the botnet in October 2023, but they believe it has been […]
US government announces the takedown of the IPStorm proxy service botnet and the guilty plea of its creator, a Russian/Moldovan national.
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By Waqas
The FBI arrested the operator of the IPStorm botnet, a Russian-Moldovan national, in Spain.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Operator of Major Proxy Botnet ‘IPStorm’ Arrested, Pleads Guilty in US
Researchers warn attackers are targeting MySQL servers and Docker hosts to plant malware capable of launching distributed DDoS attacks.
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By Waqas
While OracleIV is not a supply chain attack, it highlights the ongoing threat of misconfigured Docker Engine API deployments.
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Threat actors infected more than 10,000 devices worldwide with the ‘PrivateLoader’ and ‘Amadey’ loaders to recruit them into the proxy botnet ‘Socks5Systemz.’ Bitsight researchers uncovered a proxy botnet delivered, tracked as Socks5Systemz, which was delivered by PrivateLoader and Amadey loaders. The name Socks5Systemz comes from the name of the unique login panel consistently present in […]
The post Socks5Systemz proxy service delivered via PrivateLoader and Amadey appeared first on Security Affairs.
The recent shutdown of the Mozi botnet is believed to have been carried out by its creators, possibly forced by Chinese authorities.
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The Mozi Botnet, one of the largest IoT botnets, has been taken down, but the responsible party remains unknown.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mozi Botnet Takedown: Who Killed the IoT Zombie Botnet?
A Mirai botnet variant tracked as IZ1H9 has updated its arsenal with 13 exploits targeting various routers, IP cameras, and other IoT devices.
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