On Tuesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a security advisory cautioning federal agencies and the private sector about a significant rise in the use of LokiBot malware by wicked threat actors since July 2020. CISA said that its in-house security platform (the EINSTEIN Intrusion Detection System) Continue Reading
Recently, a peer-to-peer botnet known as FritzFrog has made waves in the technology realm, with researchers saying it has been aggressively breaching SSH servers—pieces of software found in routers and IoT devices—for the last 8 months. As per technology experts, FritzFrog spreads as a worm, brute-forcing credentials at institutions like Continue Reading
Bitdefender has discovered a new IoT botnet, Dark Nexus, which is used to carry out DDoS attacks. The botnet spreads by carrying out credential padding attacks against an extensive range of IoT devices, including routers, video recorders, and thermal cameras. “The scanner is implemented as a finite state machine Continue Reading
Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers are aggressively being investigated for weak Telnet passwords and taken over by a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet called Mozi and regarding the Gafgyt malware as it reprocesses some of its code. Security researchers at 360 Netlab who revealed it and checked its activities for roughly Continue Reading
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