#botnet

Russia's NoName057(16) group offers incentives and prizes via Telegram channel for "heroes" to mount attacks against targets within Ukraine and pro-Ukrainian countries.

Organizations are looking for new methods to safeguard the virtual machines, containers, and workload services they use in the cloud.

A new analysis of Raspberry Robin's attack infrastructure has revealed that it's possible for other threat actors to repurpose the infections for their own malicious activities, making it an even more potent threat. Raspberry Robin (aka QNAP worm), attributed to a threat actor dubbed DEV-0856, is malware that has increasingly come under the radar for being used in attacks aimed at finance,

By Habiba Rashid Along with the websites of the central bank, Bankdata—a company that develops IT solutions for the financial industry—was also targeted by a DDoS attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks Hit Denmark Central Bank and 7 Private Banks

Protection against XSS, SQLi, and more web attacks for Go-based web applications

Categories: News Tags: WordPress Tags: exploit Tags: vulnerability Tags: plugin Tags: theme Tags: update Tags: linux malware Tags: backdoor It's time to check your website is up to date. (Read more...) The post Malware targets 30 unpatched WordPress plugins appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The Evil Corp-linked malware family has undergone an evolution, becoming more obfuscated and "several times more complex," as the group behind it tests how far the worm can be spread.

WordPress sites are being targeted by a previously unknown strain of Linux malware that exploits flaws in over two dozen plugins and themes to compromise vulnerable systems. "If sites use outdated versions of such add-ons, lacking crucial fixes, the targeted web pages are injected with malicious JavaScripts," Russian security vendor Doctor Web said in a report published last week. "As a result,

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Threat actors continue to evolve the malicious botnet, which has also added a list of new vulnerabilities it can use to target devices.