#botnet

The Japanese-language Panchan botnet has been discovered stealing SSH keys from Linux servers across Asia, Europe, and North America, with a focus on telecom and education providers.

A new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been spotted actively targeting Linux servers in the education sector since its emergence in March 2022. Dubbed Panchan by Akamai Security Research, the malware "utilizes its built-in concurrency features to maximize spreadability and execute malware modules" and "harvests SSH keys to perform lateral movement." <!--adsense--> The feature-packed

Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, making it the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The web performance and security company said the attack was directed against an unnamed customer website using its Free plan and emanated from a "powerful" botnet of

Microsoft has warned of APT groups and ransomware authors exploiting the now patched Confluence vulnerability. We take a look at the dangers. The post “Multiple adversaries” exploiting Confluence vulnerability, warns Microsoft appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The dangerous malware appears to be well and truly back in action, sporting new variants and security-dodging behaviors in a wave of recent phishing campaigns.

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Solare Solar-Log 2.8.4-56/3.5.2-85. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Config Handler. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 3.5.3-86 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

The malware is using spreadsheets, documents, and other types of Microsoft Office attachments in a new and improved version that is often able to bypass email gateway-security scanners.

By Waqas MyEasyDocs is a Chennai, India based online documents verification platform whose Microsoft Azure server exposed data of over… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MyEasyDocs Exposed 30GB of Israeli and Indian Students PII Data

Image Source: Toptal The notorious Emotet malware has turned to deploy a new module designed to siphon credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser. The credit card stealer, which exclusively singles out Chrome, has the ability to exfiltrate the collected information to different remote command-and-control (C2) servers, according to enterprise security company Proofpoint, which

In this post, we’ll give you an overview of five Linux malware families your SMB should be protecting itself against — and how they work. The post 5 Linux malware families SMBs should protect themselves against appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.