#botnet

By Deeba Ahmed LummaC2 is back as LummaC2 v4.0. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LummaC2 v4.0 Malware Stealing Data with Trigonometry to Detect Human Users

Plus: The FBI's baffling inaction on a ransomware group, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more.

By Deeba Ahmed The Ddostf Botnet was initially identified in 2016. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ddostf Botnet Resurfaces in DDoS Attacks Against MySQL and Docker Hosts

Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

Russian threat actors have been possibly linked to what's been described as the "largest cyber attack against Danish critical infrastructure," in which 22 companies associated with the operation of the country's energy sector were targeted in May 2023.  "22 simultaneous, successful cyberattacks against Danish critical infrastructure are not commonplace," Denmark's SektorCERT said [PDF]. "The

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian and Moldovan national behind the operation pleaded guilty. "The botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac, and Android devices, victimizing computers and other electronic devices around the world, including in Asia,

By Waqas The FBI arrested the operator of the IPStorm botnet, a Russian-Moldovan national, in Spain. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Operator of Major Proxy Botnet ‘IPStorm’ Arrested, Pleads Guilty in US

Publicly-accessible Docker Engine API instances are being targeted by threat actors as part of a campaign designed to co-opt the machines into a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet dubbed OracleIV. "Attackers are exploiting this misconfiguration to deliver a malicious Docker container, built from an image named 'oracleiv_latest' and containing Python malware compiled as an ELF executable

Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.

By Waqas While OracleIV is not a supply chain attack, it highlights the ongoing threat of misconfigured Docker Engine API deployments. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OracleIV DDoS Botnet Malware Targets Docker Engine API Instances