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Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet

Security Affairs

Google announced to have disrupted the Glupteba botnet, a huge infrastructure composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs worldwide. Google announced to have taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba , it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet.

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Google won a lawsuit against the Glupteba botnet operators

Security Affairs

Google won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the Glupteba botnet. This week, Google announced it has won a nearly year-long legal battle against the Glupteba botnet. Glupteba is a highly sophisticated botnet composed of millions of compromised Windows devices. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. “They were clearly reacting and trying to maintain control over components of the botnet,” Adamitis said.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 460 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Experts warn that Mirai Botnet starts exploiting OMIGOD flaw

Security Affairs

The Mirai botnet starts exploiting the recently disclosed OMIGOD vulnerability to compromise vulnerable systems exposed online. Threat actors behind a Mirai botnet starts exploiting a critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-38647, a few days after Microsoft disclosed them. ” reads a Microsoft.

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Mozi infections will slightly decrease but it will stay alive for some time to come

Security Affairs

The Mozi botnet continues to spread despite the arrest of its alleged author and experts believe that it will run for many other years. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. One botnet down more to go.

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Mar 13- Mar 19 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict

Security Affairs

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. March 18 – Russia-linked Cyclops Blink botnet targeting ASUS routers.

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