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New ZHtrap botnet uses honeypot to find more victims

Security Affairs

Netlab 360 experts discovered a new Mirai-based botnet dubbed ZHtrap that implements honeypot to find more victims. Researchers from Netlab 360 discovered a new Mirai-based botnet dubbed ZHtrap that implements honeypot to find more victims. Experts noticed that that the bot borrows some implementations of the Matryosh DDoS botnet.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. ” OWA refers to Outlook Web Access , the Web-facing portion of on-premises Exchange servers.

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New Go malware Capoae uses multiple flaws to target WordPress installs, Linux systems

Security Affairs

The researchers discovered the threat after a sample of the malware targeted one Akamai honeypot. The attackers dropped a PHP malware sample through a backdoor linked to a WordPress plugin called Download-monitor, which was installed after the honeypot was accessed. and suspicious access log entries, etc.

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Hiding Devices Using Port Knocking or Single-Packet Authorization (SPA)

eSecurity Planet

Similarly, SPA installs a service, such as the open-source fwknop service, on a server or gateway to listen for specific instructions in an encrypted packet. One bad click can give an attacker access to the endpoint from which the attacker will extract the server IP address and possibly even the knock requirements.

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Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks

eSecurity Planet

A retired threat actor has returned with new attacks aimed at the cloud, containers – and encryption keys. However, the researchers are convinced the threat actor is back, as their honeypots identified TeamTNT signatures and tools in a series of three attacks during the first week of September. format(len(targets)).

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How Cybercriminals are Targeting free Wi-Fi Users?

Security Affairs

All the cybercriminals are always on the lookout to get their hands on users’ personal or financial data or they look for vulnerabilities to get access to their devices. Carrying this attack successfully is so easy that it took 10 minutes to a 7 years old girl to hack into public Wi-Fi network and access stranger’s laptop.

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UK newspaper The Telegraph exposed a 10TB database with subscriber data

Security Affairs

The data was stored on an exposed Elasticsearch cluster, most of the data were encrypted, but personal details of at least 1,200 Telegraph subscribers and registrants were in clear test along with a a huge trove of internal server logs. The newspaper’s security team secured the data the same day. ” wrote Diachenko.