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Hacker gets 4 years in jail for NeverQuest banking malware

November 25, 2019 0 Comments banking malware, Botnet, Law & order, lisov, malware, neverquest, russia, russian hacker, security threats, stanislav vitaliyevich lisov, trojan, vawtrak

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:26:05 +0000

The NeverQuest Trojan has been used by cybermuggers to try to weasel millions of dollars out of victims’ bank accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wzl5484w02Q” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Darknet hosting provider in underground NATO bunker busted

October 1, 2019 0 Comments acechemstore, Botnet, bulletproof, cannabis road, cyberbunker, Cybercrime, dark web, darknet, data center, data loss, Denial of Service, fraudsters, germany, hosting provider, Law & order, lifestyle pharma, malware, mirai, nato, netherlands, orangechemicals, organized crime, Server, Spam, spamhaus, traben-trarbach, wall street market

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:41:45 +0000

Police overcame not only digital defenses of the “bulletproof” provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mdF0Y34b2RU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Darknet hosting provider busted in underground NATO bunker

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:41:45 +0000

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Emotet malspam campaign uses Snowden’s new book as lure

September 23, 2019 0 Comments Botnet, botnets, edward snowden, emotet, macros, malspam, permanent record, snowden, Spam, whistleblowers, word exploits

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:40:44 +0000

Emotet starts a new week of malicious spam by promising a copy of Edward Snowden’s new book.

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Emotet is back: botnet springs back to life with new spam campaign

September 16, 2019 0 Comments Botnet, botnets, downloader, emotet, information stealer, malicious email, malspam, phishing, Ryuk ransomware, Spam, spear phishing, trickbot

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:04:53 +0000

After months of laying dormant, the notorious Emotet is back, with its botnet spewing spam globally.

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Tags: botnet botnets downloader emotet information stealer malicious email malspam phishing Ryuk ransomware spam spear phishing trickbot

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Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

September 5, 2019 0 Comments author, booters, Botnet, Brian Krebs, DDoS, DDoS-for-hire, Denial of Service, Drake, Fbot, Gigabit Passive Optical Network, GoAhead, GPON, guilty, High Silicon DVRs, Huawei, IoT, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, Law & order, Masuta, mirai, Nexus Zeta, Nuclear Fallout, Okiru, ProxyPipe, Qbot, Remaiten, Routers, Satori, security threats, SWATting, Telemax, telnet, tsunami, Vamp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:44:37 +0000

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GTqVr4bD8sE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS

August 30, 2019 0 Comments Android, Android Debug Bridge (ADB), Android OS, Botnet, Google, IoT, Mobile, Operating Systems, Organisations, security threats, set-top boxes, WootCloud

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:07:32 +0000

Production systems aren’t supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YVYbkKJr18k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Report: 53% of social media logins are fraudulent

August 28, 2019 0 Comments account hijacking, Botnet, bots, click farms, data loss, data scraping, holiday scams, logins, scripted attacks, security threats, Social engineering, Social networks, Spam

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:16:32 +0000

Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GlHMOtyrs8I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Report: 53% of social media logins are fraud

August 28, 2019 0 Comments account hijacking, Botnet, bots, click farms, data loss, data scraping, holiday scams, logins, scripted attacks, security threats, Social engineering, Social networks, Spam

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:16:32 +0000

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Don’t let the crooks ‘borrow’ your home router as a hacking server

August 7, 2019 0 Comments Botnet, cybersecurity, Hacking, home router, malware, ssh

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:18:42 +0000

Crooks don’t have to break *into* your network to benefit – they can bounce *off* it so you take the blame and look like a hacker yourself.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5y3xxyh3DoA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>