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Fronton botnet can launch trending disinformation campaigns

Ryan Daws — Mon, 23 May 2022 16:34:34 +0000

A Russian IoT botnet known as Fronton can use inauthentic coordinated behaviour to launch disinformation trends on social media. “Trends” on social media platforms are how many people keep updated with what’s going on in the world. There’s growing awareness of not believing everything that’s posted under a trend – especially around developing events like... Read more »

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Mirai variant ‘Beastmode’ exploits fresh vulnerabilities

Ryan Daws — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:21:34 +0000

A variant of the Mirai botnet called Beastmode has been observed exploiting recently-discovered vulnerabilities. The Mirai botnet is composed primarily of IoT and embedded devices. In 2016, Mirai made national headlines when it used exploited connected devices to overwhelm several high-profile targets with record-setting Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. Mirai’s original creator was arrested in the... Read more »

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Netlab researchers discover IoT botnets HEH and Ttint

Ryan Daws — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:51:44 +0000

Security researchers from Netlab have discovered two new IoT botnets called HEH and Ttint. Netlab is the network research division of Chinese cybersecurity giant Qihoo 360. The company’s researchers first spotted the Ttint botnet targeting Tenda routers using two zero-day vulnerabilities. Ttint spreads a remote control trojan based on code from the Mirai malware. Mirai... Read more »

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IBM X-Force discovers Mozi botnet accounts for 90% of IoT traffic

Ryan Daws — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:20:50 +0000

Security experts from IBM X-Force have discovered that the Mozi botnet now accounts for 90 percent of traffic from IoT devices. Mozi evolved from the source codes of infamous malware families such as Mirai, IoT Reaper, and Gafgyt. The botnet is capable of DDoS attacks, data exfiltration, and command or payload execution. IoT devices with... Read more »

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Bitdefender: New botnet is targeting millions of IoT devices

Ryan Daws — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:49:57 +0000

Security researchers from Bitdefender have uncovered a new botnet which is targeting millions of IoT devices. The so-called dark_nexus botnet seeks to infect common IoT devices like smart cameras, routers, and more. Bitdefender gave dark_nexus its name after featuring in its user agent string when carrying out exploits over HTTP: “dark_NeXus_Qbot/4.0”. Qbot is another IoT... Read more »

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