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Law Enforcement's Cybercrime Honeypot Maneuvers Paying Off

Data Breach Today

Closing EncroChat and Sky, Plus Careful Word-of-Mouth Management, Drove Anom Uptake The global law enforcement "Anom" honeypot operation racked up impressive statistics for the number of criminals tricked into using the encrypted communications service.

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Encrypted Communications Network 'Anom' Was Sting Operation

Data Breach Today

FBI Developed Smartphone-Based Platform as Honeypot for Criminals Thousands of suspected criminals have been relying on the "Anom" encrypted communications platform to coordinate their efforts.

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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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TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers

Security Affairs

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”. ” continue the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. “We have been testing 367 known web shell paths via scanning of Exchange servers.”

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Analysis of the FBI’s Anom Phone

Schneier on Security

Motherboard got its hands on one of those Anom phones that were really FBI honeypots. The details are interesting.

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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. ” said Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar.