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Analysts have seen a massive spike in malicious activity by the XorDdos trojan in the last six months, against Linux cloud and IoT infrastructures .

By Waqas The Pro-Russia Hacker Group Killnet recently targeted European institutions, while Anonymous hackers are already claiming to have leaked… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Declares Cyber War Against Pro-Russia Hacker Group Killnet

Fronton, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet that came to light in March 2020, is much more powerful than previously thought, per the latest research. "Fronton is a system developed for coordinated inauthentic behavior on a massive scale," threat intelligence firm Nisos said in a report published last week. "This system includes a web-based dashboard known as SANA that enables a user

A Linux botnet malware known as XorDdos has witnessed a 254% surge in activity over the last six months, according to latest research from Microsoft. The trojan, so named for carrying out denial-of-service attacks on Linux systems and its use of XOR-based encryption for communications with its command-and-control (C2) server, is known to have been active since at least 2014. "XorDdos' modular

VMware has issued patches to contain two security flaws impacting Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation that could be exploited to backdoor enterprise networks. The first of the two flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-22972 (CVSS score: 9.8), concerns an authentication bypass that could enable an actor with network access to the UI to gain administrative access without prior

As demonstrated in Ukraine and elsewhere, the battlefield for today's warriors extends to the virtual realm with cyber warfare.

Researchers say a GitHub proof-of-concept exploitation of recently announced VMware bugs is being abused by hackers in the wild.

By Waqas Essentially, ransom DDoS attacks are just DDoS with a ransom demand but a sudden increase in these attacks… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Growing Threat of Ransom DDoS Attacks Requires Effective Prevention and Mitigation

The Sysrv botnet has been developing over the last years, and has become a multi-platform botnet that specializes in Monero cryptomining. The post Sysrv botnet is out to mine Monero on your Windows and Linux servers appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

A critical VMware bug tracked as CVE-2022-22954 continues to draw cybercriminal moths to its remote code-execution flame, with recent attacks focused on botnets and Log4Shell.