News October 26, 2022

LemonDuck cryptojacking botnet targets API security gap

2 min read - A recent report reveals the well-known crypto mining botnet LemonDuck can target Docker to secretly mine cryptocurrency on the Linux platform. LemonDuck targets Microsoft Exchange servers to mine crypto, escalate privileges and move sideways in compromised networks. It takes advantage…

Risk Management September 10, 2021

How companies can prepare for botnet attacks on APIs

4 min read - Organizations aren’t slowing down in their use of application programming interfaces (APIs). According to a survey covered by DEVOPSdigest, 61.3% of organizations used more APIs in 2020 than they did a year earlier. An even greater proportion (71.3%) said they…

News August 23, 2021

DirtyMoe Botnet Returns With Undetectable Threat Profile

2 min read - The malware botnet known as DirtyMoe has been around since at least 2016, but its newest version makes some major changes that put it back in the spotlight. Take a look at how the new version works, what is different…

October 9, 2020

New FritzFrog Botnet Breaches Over 500 SSH Servers

2 min read - A new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet called FritzFrog has breached over 500 secure shell (SSH) servers, including those operated by a railway company and some well-known educational institutions in the U.S. and Europe. FritzFrog was first discovered in January by Guardicore…

Incident Response September 17, 2020

A New Botnet Attack Just Mozied Into Town

11 min read - A relatively new player in the threat arena, the Mozi botnet, has spiked among Internet of things (IoT) devices, IBM X-Force has discovered. This malware has been active since late 2019 and has code overlap with Mirai and its variants.…

July 28, 2020

Emotet Returns With Old Tricks, Malware Partners

3 min read - A malspam campaign involving Emotet saw a resurgence after five months of laying low, Malwarebytes detected on Friday, July 17. This operation used the well-known method of sending attack emails as a reply within an existing email thread. From there,…

April 28, 2020

Attack Resources Shared by New LeetHozer Botnet and Moobot Malware

2 min read - Security researchers discovered that the new LeetHozer botnet shares some attack resources with the Moobot malware family.

March 23, 2020

Mirai Variant Mukashi Conducts Brute-Force Attacks Against Vulnerable NAS Devices

2 min read - Network-attached storage devices are being targeted by Mukashi, a variant of the Mirai malware, in an effort to launch large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, researchers warn.

Software Vulnerabilities March 16, 2020

Player vs. Hacker: Cyberthreats to Gaming Companies and Gamers

6 min read - It is important that gaming companies are prepared to defend against threats to their consumers and that gamers understand the types of threats they can face in their community.

Malware February 18, 2020

Banking Trojans and Ransomware — A Treacherous Matrimony Bound to Get Worse

6 min read - To combat the threat of banking Trojans and ransomware, organizations should stay up to date with the rapidly evolving threat landscape by utilizing the latest threat intelligence.