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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. ” reads the analysis published by Netlab 360.

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Tourists Give Themselves Away by Looking Up. So Do Most Network Intruders.

Krebs on Security

These virtual hostage situations usually begin with the intruders purchasing access to the target’s network from dark web brokers who resell access to stolen credentials and compromised computers. For example, that AWS canary token sure looks like the digital keys to your cloud, but the token itself offers no access.

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Linux Malware targets misconfigured misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis servers

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Once attackers gained initial access to a system, they used a series of shell scripts and employed Linux attack techniques to drop and execute a cryptocurrency miner. Threat actors maintain persistent access to the compromised hosts through a reverse shell. ” reads the report from Cado Security.

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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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Hackers are scanning the web for vulnerable Citrix systems

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Some of the addressed flaws could be exploited only if the attackers have access to the targeted system and request user interaction, or other conditions must be verified. “As of today, my F5 honeypot is getting hit by attempts to exploit two of the Citrix vulnerabilities disclosed this week.” Citrix CISO, Fermin J.

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

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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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Two Linux botnets already exploit Log4Shell flaw in Log4j

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Researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library. “Before accessing the TOR network, Muhstik queries relay.l33t-ppl.inf through some publicly available DoH services. After the public key is added to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

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