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Weekly podcast: ICS attacks, Reddit and SIM swap arrests

IT Governance

Cybereason’s researchers recently set up a honeypot environment with a network architecture that replicated that of “typical power substation” and waited. Only two days after the honeypot was launched, it was attacked by a black-market seller, who installed backdoors that would allow anyone to access it, even if admin passwords were changed.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

Shellbot is known since 2005 and even available on GitHub. Searching for useful information, we found that it has appeared on several honeypots since 2012, the scripts are similar in styles and in techniques implemented. The post Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations appeared first on Security Affairs.

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