Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

The experts pointed out that almost all of these are honeypots. The researchers pointed out that Apache OFBiz is not a hugely popular software. The experts queried Shodan and discovered more than 10,000 potential targets. The report also remarks that OFBiz was also one of the first products to have a public Log4Shell exploit.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2024

Cado Security Labs researchers discovered this campaign after detecting initial access activity on a Docker Engine API honeypot. The shell script payloads employed in these attacks bear resemblance to those used in prior cloud attacks, including those attributed to TeamTNT , WatchDog, operators behind the Kiss a Dog campaign.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We are seeing @Fortinet FortiNAC CVE-2022-39952 exploitation attempts from multiple IPs in our honeypot sensors. A PoC was published earlier today. Andrew Morris , the founder of CEO of GreyNoise Intelligence, also confirmed that his firm started observing broad exploitation of the FortiNAC CVE-2022-39952.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

“Once again, our custom honeypot network deployment has provided valuable insights into cyberattacks, revealing previously unknown vulnerabilities. Similar to the initial two zero-days, the compromised devices could exploit OS command injection vulnerabilities in NTP settings on the affected Internet of Things (IoT) and NVR devices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Security researchers from SANS Technology Institute set up a collection of honeypots set up allowed the researchers to catch a series of attacks shortly after the exploit code for CVE-2020-14882 was publicly available. 185.225.19.240 – assigned to MivoCloud (Moldova) 84.17.37.239 – assigned to DataCamp Ltd (Hong Kong).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

While the IP address of the database is still public, the database was taken offline and has been replaced with a honeypot. Exposed records include full names, arrival dates, gender, residency status, passport numbers, visa information, and Thai arrival card numbers. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Once a connection is established, the malware will check the presence of a honeypot by comparing the hostname of the attacked server to the string “svr04”, which is the default hostname of Cowrie SSH honeypot. reads the Intezer’s report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

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. Immediately after the disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw in Log4j library threat actors started including the exploit code in Linux botnets.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One of the honeypots used by Cado was targeted by an attack originating from the IP 103[.]79[.]118[.]221 ” reads the report published by Cado Security. “After disabling these configuration parameters, the attacker uses the set command to set the values of two separate Redis keys.” ” The main Migo payload (/tmp/.migo)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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. AquaSec researchers observed the cybercrime gang TeamTNT hijacking servers to run Bitcoin solver since early September.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Renato Marinho, a security researcher at Morphus Labs and SANS ISC handler reported that the WebLogic honeypots he set up were targeted by a large number of scans for CVE-2020–14882. “Starting late last week, we observed a large number of scans against our WebLogic honeypots to detect if they are vulnerable to CVE-2020–14882.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Since Jan 21st we are seeing exploitation attempts in our honeypot sensors for Oracle E-Business Suite CVE-2022-21587 (CVSS 9.8 Shadowserver researchers warn that threat actors have started attempting to exploit critical Oracle E-Business Suite flaw (CVE-2022-21587) shortly after a PoC was published. RCE) shortly after a PoC was published.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The malware was first spotted on February 9, 2022, when 360Netlab’s honeypot system captured an unknown ELF file that was spreading by exploiting the Log4J vulnerability. Researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab have discovered a new backdoor used to infect Linux systems and include them in a botnet tracked as B1txor20.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. They only expose port 3389. pic.twitter.com/VdiKoqAwkr — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2019.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

In April 2017, Wikileaks published some documents about the project, describing it as a sort of malware command and control infrastructure used by the US agency to control its malicious code and exfiltrate information from the target systems.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

Internet-wide sweeps seen by over 700 of our IKEv2 aware honeypot sensors, since May 26th. Zyxel firewalls CVE-2023-28771 (pre-auth remote command OS injection) is being actively exploited to build a Mirai-like botnet. Exploit PoC is public, so expect an increase in attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Check out the details in [link] pic.twitter.com/uMHteDKOti — Horizon3 Attack Team (@Horizon3Attack) October 30, 2023 The researchers pointed out that they analyzed the vulnerability by analyzing the data gathered from a honeypot set up by the SECUINFRA FALCON TEAM. Cisco has released updates to address the vulnerability security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Yesterday, the popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. They only expose port 3389. pic.twitter.com/VdiKoqAwkr — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2019. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Below is the video PoC of the zero-day exploitation: According to Resecurity, the vulnerability was identified by the cause of abnormal traffic monitoring which consisted of a network of “honeypot” sensors to emulate common IoT devices developed by Resecurity are to hunt for malice on the internet.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

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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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

Akamai’s SIRT recently discovered the new bot within HTTP and SSH honeypots, it stood out due to its large size and the lack of specific identification around its newer hashes. The experts reported that the HinataBot bot was seen being distributed since the beginning of 2023 and its operators are actively updating it.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A few hours ago, 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. Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The attack chain starts with scans for the Redis server exposing port 6379 to the internet, then threat actors attempt to connect and run the following Redis commands: INFO command – this command allows adversaries to receive information about our Redis server.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

Police dismantled bulletproof hosting service provider Lolek Hosted Python URL parsing function flaw can enable command execution UK govt contractor MPD FM leaks employee passport data Power Generator in South Africa hit with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike The Evolution of API: From Commerce to Cloud Gafgyt botnet is targeting EoL Zyxel routers Charming (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

” reads the report published by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. “The P2PInfect worm uses a P2P network to support and facilitate the transmission of malicious binaries.” ” The malware uses a PowerShell script to establish and maintain communication with the P2P network.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Italy’s Antitrust Agency fines Apple and Google for aggressive practices of data acquisition HAEICHI-II: Interpol arrested +1,000 suspects linked to various cybercrimes IKEA hit by a cyber attack that uses stolen internal reply-chain emails Marine services provider Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) hit by Clop ransomware Threat actors target crypto and (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Researchers deployed multiple instances of vulnerable systems and found that 80% of the 320 honeypots were compromised within 24 hours. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks deployed a honeypot infrastructure of 320 nodes to analyze how three actors target exposed services in public clouds. SecurityAffairs – hacking, honeypot).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Using our threat intelligence systems and honeypot, the Uptycs threat research team identified different kinds of payloads dropped on the vulnerable servers. This Tsunami sample (hash: 4c97321bcd291d2ca82c68b02cde465371083dace28502b7eb3a88558d7e190c ) seen in our customer telemetry and honeypot systems used crontab as a persistence.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

The latest versions of the infection script use block lists to avoid infecting specific hosts, such as researcher honeypots. . The 8220 Gang selects victims by identifying them through their internet accessibility. From our observations the group has made changes over the recent weeks to expand the botnet to nearly 30,000 victims globally.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

Internet-wide sweeps seen by over 700 of our IKEv2 aware honeypot sensors, since May 26th. Zyxel firewalls CVE-2023-28771 (pre-auth remote command OS injection) is being actively exploited to build a Mirai-like botnet. Exploit PoC is public, so expect an increase in attacks.

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2023

Whether ChatGPT is the future of many industries or it turns out to be a passing trend – with its capabilities overestimated by technophiles who believe that automation and mass unemployment are the keys to prosperity – one thing is for sure: it’s currently an information security nightmare. Can you spot a scam?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

We do not know if any unauthorized parties accessed it during that time, but our honeypot experiments show attackers can find and steal data from unprotected databases in just a few hours after they’re exposed.” . “Evidence suggests the data was left unprotected for about three weeks, since September 1st.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2022

. “Our continued analysis on this malware family reveals a clear link with the Xanthe-based cryptojacking campaign discovered by Cisco’s Talos security research team in late 2020. Researchers at Talos discovered malware resembling a cryptocurrency mining bot when they were alerted to an intrusion on one of their Docker honeypots.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. They only expose port 3389. pic.twitter.com/VdiKoqAwkr — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

Magecart hackers hide captured credit card data in JPG file Microsoft releases On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to fix ProxyLogon issues New Mirai variant appears in the threat landscape China-linked hackers target telcos to steal 5G secrets Data Breaches Tracker monitor unsecured ElasticSearch servers online FBI warns of PYSA Ransomware attacks (..)

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