#botnet

As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore’s broad, internationally distributed network of scrubbing centers allows them to follow attack trends over time. Read on to learn about DDoS attack trends for Q3–Q4 of 2023, and what they mean for developing a robust

By Deeba Ahmed Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (Pompompurin on the forum) launched BreachForums in March 2022 after the FBI took down the then-popular cybercrime marketplace, RaidForums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BreachForums Admin Pompompurin Gets 20-Year Supervised Sentence

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a "notable increase" in threat actor activity actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell on compromised hosts. "The web shells are concealed within an unknown binary format and are designed to evade security and signature-based scanners," Trustwave said. "Notably, despite the binary's unknown file

By Deeba Ahmed 9Hits, Double Hit: Malware Mimics Web Tool to Mine Crypto, Generate Fake Website Traffic. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malware Exploits 9Hits, Turns Docker Servers into Traffic Boosted Crypto Miners

By Deeba Ahmed The AndroxGh0st malware was initially reported in December 2022. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI: Androxgh0st Malware Building Mega-Botnet for Credential Theft

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that threat actors deploying the AndroxGh0st malware are creating a botnet for "victim identification and exploitation in target networks." A Python-based malware, AndroxGh0st was first documented by Lacework in December 2022, with the malware

The remote access trojan (RAT) known as Remcos RAT has been found being propagated via webhards by disguising it as adult-themed games in South Korea. WebHard, short for web hard drive, is a popular online file storage system used to upload, download, and share files in the country. While webhards have been used in the past to deliver njRAT, UDP RAT, and DDoS botnet malware, the

By Deeba Ahmed The attacks, potentially linked to Russian APT Sandworm, exploited vulnerabilities in Zyxel firewalls. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Forescout Report Uncovers New Details in Danish Energy Hack

The cyber attacks targeting the energy sector in Denmark last year may not have had the involvement of the Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group, new findings from Forescout show. The intrusions, which targeted around 22 Danish energy organizations in May 2023, occurred in two distinct waves, one which exploited a security flaw in Zyxel firewall (CVE-2023-28771) and a

By Deeba Ahmed Another day, another malware threat against Linux systems! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mirai-based NoaBot Botnet Targeting Linux Systems with Cryptominer