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Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape

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Security experts from Sophos Labs have spotted a new piece of IoT malware tracked as Chalubo that is attempting to recruit devices into a botnet used to launch DDoS attacks. ” reads the analysis from Sophos Labs. ” reads the analysis from Sophos Labs. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers

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” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. “The group distributes the bot by exploiting a common command injection vulnerability on internet of things (IoT) devices and Linux servers. Further details were reported in the analysis published by TrendMicro. Pierluigi Paganini. Security Affairs – Shellbot, bot).

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The Mystery of Fbot

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In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This wave is a significant timeline as a technology step-up for DDoS botnet and IoT malware development.

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Experts found first Mirai bot targeting Linux servers via Hadoop YARN flaw

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Netscout observed tens of thousands of exploit attempts daily targeting it honeypots, in November attackers attempted to deliver some 225 unique malicious payloads exploiting the Hadoop YARN vulnerability. These versions of Mirai behave much like the original but are tailored to run on Linux servers and not underpowered IoT devices.”

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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

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In October one of the honeypots of the company captured the bot, its downloader , and some bot modules. “Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.” ” reads the analysis.

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Multiple DDoS botnets were observed targeting Zyxel devices

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Internet-wide sweeps seen by over 700 of our IKEv2 aware honeypot sensors, since May 26th. Analysis conducted by FortiGuard Labs has identified a significant increase in attack bursts starting from May.” Zyxel firewalls CVE-2023-28771 (pre-auth remote command OS injection) is being actively exploited to build a Mirai-like botnet.

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Over 19,000 Orange Livebox ADSL modems leak WiFi credentials

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Experts at Bad Packets observed a scan targeting their honeypot, further investigation allowed them to discover that they were leaking the local network access details. “On Friday, December 21, 2018, our honeypots observed an interesting scan consisting of a GET request for /get_getnetworkconf.cgi. ” continues the analysis.