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Fileless worm builds cryptomining, backdoor-planting P2P botnet

August 19, 2020

A fileless worm dubbed FritzFrog has been found roping Linux-based devices – corporate servers, routers and IoT devices – with SSH servers into a P2P botnet whose …

Updated cryptojacking worm steals AWS credentials

August 18, 2020

A malicious cryptocurrency miner and DDoS worm that has been targeting Docker systems for months now also steals Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. What’s more, …

Cryptojacking worm compromised over 2,000 Docker hosts

October 18, 2019

Security researchers have discovered a cryptojacking worm that propagates using containers in the Docker Engine (Community Edition) and has spread to more than 2,000 …

Conficker: A 10-year retrospective on a legendary worm

November 21, 2018

This November marked the 10-year anniversary of Conficker, a fast-spreading worm targeting Microsoft systems that went on to claim one of the highest levels of infection in …

Vaporworms: New breed of self-propagating fileless malware to emerge in 2019

November 16, 2018

WatchGuard Technologies’ information security predictions for 2019 include the emergence of vaporworms, a new breed of fileless malware with wormlike properties to …

Malicious hacking activity increasingly targeting critical infrastructure

September 19, 2018

In this podcast, Andrew Ginter, VP of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions, and Edward Amoroso, CEO of TAG Cyber, talk about how the traditional focus of most …

Banking Trojan attacks increase, large scale Ramnit campaign impacts organizations worldwide

September 12, 2018

Check Point revealed a significant increase in attacks using the Ramnit banking trojan. Ramnit has doubled its global impact over the past few months, driven by a large scale …

Traffic manipulation and cryptocurrency mining campaign compromised 40,000+ machines

June 7, 2018

Unknown attackers have compromised 40,000+ servers, networking and IoT devices around the world and are using them to mine Monero and redirect traffic to websites hosting tech …

DHS, FBI warn about malware tied to North Korean threat actor

May 30, 2018

US-CERT has released a new technical alert on malware used by Hidden Cobra, a threat actor whose activities they believe to be directed by the North Korean government. The …

Hajime IoT worm infects devices to head off Mirai

April 19, 2017

Mirai is the name of the worm that has taken control of many IoT devices around the world and used them to mount DDoS attacks, the most high-profile of which was directed …

Ubiquiti routers hit by backdoor-generating worm

May 20, 2016

A worm targeting wireless network equipment developed by US-based Ubiquiti Networks has already managed to compromise thousands of routers across the world. To spread it, …

Facebook worm spreads by leveraging cloud services

March 13, 2015

Facebook users are in danger of having their computers turned in a bot by a worm that spreads via the social network. The worm, identified as belonging to the Kilim malware …

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