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Dridex botnet alive and well, now also spreading ransomware

Last October’s disruption of the Dridex botnet by UK and US law enforcement agencies and the arrest of a Moldovan bot master have not lead to the death of the botnet. …

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Someone hijacked the Dridex botnet to deliver Avira AV’s installer

After last September’s arrest of an alleged member of the gang that has been developing and spreading the Dridex banking malware, and last October’s temporary …

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Rise of automation: Battle of the bots

As outlined in the Global Application and Network Security Report 2015-2016, Radware found that throughout 2015, no industry was immune to cyber attacks, and few were …

Elasticsearch servers actively targeted by botmasters

Elasticsearch is one of the most popular choices when it comes to enterprise search engines.Unfortunately, a couple of remote code execution flaws (CVE-2015-5377, …

Open source Twittor tool can control botnets via Direct Messages

A security researcher has created a tool that allows botnet masters to control their botnet by simply sending out commands via Twitter accounts.“I mostly wanted to …

Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet

A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems.The botnet is …

Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots

Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider and …

CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials

Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the …

Exposing the most dangerous financial malware threats

Cyphort analyzed the top eight types of financial malware cybercriminals are using today to target banks and electronic payment systems.The most dangerous financial malware …

Exposing the most dangerous financial malware threats

“Cyphort analyzed the top eight types of financial malware cybercriminals are using today to target banks and electronic payment systems. The most dangerous financial …

UK, US law enforcement agencies disrupt Dridex botnet

The UK’s National Crime Agency is spearheading an onslaught against the Dridex (aka Bugat, aka Cridex) banking malware and the criminals that wield it.“Dridex …

Unexpectedly benevolent malware improves security of routers, IoT devices

At this point in time, the existence of a botnet comprising of tens of thousands of compromised routers and other IoT devices is not news. Nevertheless, this latest one mapped …

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