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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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Robocall Results from a Telephony Honeypot

Schneier on Security

A group of researchers set up a telephony honeypot and tracked robocall behavior : NCSU researchers said they ran 66,606 telephone lines between March 2019 and January 2020, during which time they said to have received 1,481,201 unsolicited calls -- even if they never made their phone numbers public via any source. Research paper.

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

Krebs on Security

Security experts say this same tourist dynamic is a dead giveaway in virtually all computer intrusions that lead to devastating attacks like data theft and ransomware, and that more organizations should set simple virtual tripwires that sound the alarm when authorized users and devices are spotted exhibiting this behavior.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

The Shadowserver Foundation , a nonprofit that helps network owners identify and fix security threats , says it has found 21,248 different Exchange servers which appear to be compromised by a backdoor and communicating with brian[.]krebsonsecurity[.]top Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me. krebsonsecurity[.]top

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 432 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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

Security Affairs

Researchers from Cado Security observed a new Linux malware campaign targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances. Cado Security Labs researchers discovered this campaign after detecting initial access activity on a Docker Engine API honeypot. ” reads the report from Cado Security.

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New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days

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In October, Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) noticed an anomalous activity to the company’s honeypots targeting a rarely used TCP port. “In late October 2023, we noticed a small uptick in activity to our honeypots targeting a rarely used TCP port.

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