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Naked Security Live – Beware ‘Flubot’: the home delivery scam with a difference
Here’s the latest Naked Security talk – watch now!
Internet of Threats: IoT Botnets Drive Surge in Network Attacks
As Internet of things (IoT) devices in homes, industrial environments, transportation networks and elsewhere continue to proliferate, so does the attack surface for malicious IoT network attackers. IoT attack activity…
Dridex Campaign Propelled by Cutwail Botnet and Poisonous PowerShell Scripts
IBM X-Force threat intelligence has been observing a rise in Dridex-related network attacks that are being driven by the Cutwail botnet. Dridex is delivered as a second-stage infector after an…
Search crimes – how the Gootkit gang poisons Google searches
When a search result looks too good to be true – it IS too good to be true!
S3 Ep18: Apple emergency, crypto blunder and botnet takedown [Podcast]
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Emotet takedown – Europol attacks “world’s most dangerous malware”
Great news from Europol – if you’ve heard of Emotet, you’ll have a good idea how badly things often end for its victims.
ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt Trickbot
Throughout its monitoring, ESET analyzed thousands of malicious samples every month to help this effort
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Mirai Botnet Exploit Weaponized to Attack IoT Devices via CVE-2020-5902
We found an internet of things (IoT) Mirai botnet downloader exploiting CVE-2020-5902 in the wild, two weeks after getting a 10 out of 10 CVSS rating in its disclosure. Analyzing the said variant, it can also abuse nine other recently discovered security bugs in other devices.
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XORDDoS, Kaiji Botnet Malware Variants Target Exposed Docker Servers
We have recently detected variants of two existing Linux botnet malware types targeting exposed Docker servers; these are XORDDoS malware and Kaiji DDoS malware. While the XORDDoS attack infiltrated the Docker server to infect all the containers hosted on it, the Kaiji attack deploys its own container that will contain its DDoS malware.
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