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The Faketoken Trojan sends out offensive texts

January 13, 2020 admin Android, banking trojans, botnets, Faketoken, mobile devices, sms, Threats

Credit to Author: Alexander Eremin| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:13:00 +0000

The ransomware app now uses infected devices to send SMS messages abroad on the victim’s dime.

Emotet malspam campaign uses Snowden’s new book as lure

September 23, 2019 admin Botnet, botnets, Edward Snowden, emotet, macros, malspam, permanent record, Snowden, spam, whistleblowers, Word exploits

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:40:44 +0000

Emotet starts a new week of malicious spam by promising a copy of Edward Snowden’s new book.

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Emotet is back: botnet springs back to life with new spam campaign

September 16, 2019 admin Botnet, botnets, downloader, emotet, information stealer, malicious email, malspam, phishing, Ryuk Ransomware, spam, spear phishing, trickbot

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:04:53 +0000

After months of laying dormant, the notorious Emotet is back, with its botnet spewing spam globally.

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Mirai goes Enterprise

March 19, 2019 admin botnets, Business, enterprise, Exploits, IoT, Mirai

Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:02:56 +0000

A new strain of Mirai is equipped with a much wider range of exploits, including some targeted at enterprise-class IoT devices.

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Compromising vital infrastructure: communication

February 8, 2019 admin botnets, Breaking the internet, Business, communication, DDos attack, Domain Generating Algorithms, encryption, hordes, Infrastructure, internet backbone, Misinformation and fake news, mobile telephone networks, Myanmar, Redundancy, Security world, vital

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:09:33 +0000

In the series about vital infrastructure we look at communication. How vital is it? How is malware a threat and even how does malware show us the way to secure communication?

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Tags: botnets Breaking the internet communication DDos attack Domain Generating Algorithms encryption hordes infrastructure internet backbone Misinformation and fake news mobile telephone networks Myanmar redundancy vital

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Malwarebytes’ 2019 security predictions

November 27, 2018 admin AI, botnets, byos, cybercrime, EternalBlue, IoT, malware, soundloggers

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Every year, we at Malwarebytes Labs like to stare into our crystal ball and foretell the future of malware. And while all hope is for a threat-free 2019, the reality likely includes botnets, IoT, artificial intelligence, and even more data breaches. When it comes to security, we can pretty much assure you that attacks will keep happening—just as the sun rises and sets.

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Tags: AI botnets byos EternalBlue IoT soundloggers

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Top 5 most notorious cyberattacks

November 6, 2018 admin APT, Attacks, botnets, cryptors, cyberweapons, Darkhotel, ddos, ExPetr, malware, Mirai, NotPetya, ransomware, stuxnet, Threats, WannaCry

Credit to Author: John Snow| Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 09:52:23 +0000

Epidemics, espionage, destruction: We present the most memorable cyberattacks of recent years.

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Servidores SSH mal protegidos víctimas del botnet Chalubo

October 29, 2018 admin Actualidad, botnets

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:46:40 +0000

SophosLabs ha detectado una nueva botnet DDoS que se centra en servidores SSH mal protegidos. Llamada Chalubo (o ChaCha-Lua-bot) en referencia al uso del cifrador de flujo ChaCha, el malware comenzó a circular en agosto antes de que se viera un pico en su actividad a comienzos de septiembre. El objetivo del malware es comprometer […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/rf6SexyPgsM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>