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AI Data Poisoning

Posted on March 26, 2025 By infossl
AI, botnets, Security technology, spoofing, Uncategorized

Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers: Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare’s new system lures them into a “maze” of realistic-looking but irrelevant pages, wasting the crawler’s computing resources. The approach is a notable shift from the standard block-and-defend … Read More “AI Data Poisoning” »

FBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet

Posted on September 19, 2024 By infossl
botnets, china, hacking, Security technology, Uncategorized

The FBI has shut down a botnet run by Chinese hackers: The botnet malware infected a number of different types of internet-connected devices around the world, including home routers, cameras, digital video recorders, and NAS drives. Those devices were used to help infiltrate sensitive networks related to universities, government agencies, telecommunications providers, and media organizations…. … Read More “FBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet” »

The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet

Posted on June 7, 2024 By infossl
botnets, courts, COVID-19, crime, cybercrime, malware, Security technology, Uncategorized

The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide. These devices were associated with more than 19 million … Read More “The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet” »

The UK Bans Default Passwords

Posted on May 2, 2024 By infossl
botnets, Internet of Things, passwords, Security technology, uk, Uncategorized

The UK is the first country to ban default passwords on IoT devices. On Monday, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to ban default guessable usernames and passwords from these IoT devices. Unique passwords installed by default are still permitted. The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new … Read More “The UK Bans Default Passwords” »

No, Toothbrushes Were Not Used in a Massive DDoS Attack

Posted on February 9, 2024 By infossl
botnets, denial of service, fake news, Internet of Things, Security technology, Uncategorized

The widely reported story last week that 1.5 million smart toothbrushes were hacked and used in a DDoS attack is false. Near as I can tell, a German reporter talking to someone at Fortinet got it wrong, and then everyone else ran with it without reading the German text. It was a hypothetical, which Fortinet … Read More “No, Toothbrushes Were Not Used in a Massive DDoS Attack” »

The Story of the Mirai Botnet

Posted on January 16, 2024 By infossl
botnets, history of security, Security technology, Uncategorized

Over at Wired, Andy Greenberg has an excellent story about the creators of the 2016 Mirai botnet. Powered by WPeMatico

When Apps Go Rogue

Posted on August 30, 2023 By infossl
apple, botnets, Security technology, Uncategorized

Interesting story of an Apple Macintosh app that went rogue. Basically, it was a good app until one particular update…when it went bad. With more official macOS features added in 2021 that enabled the “Night Shift” dark mode, the NightOwl app was left forlorn and forgotten on many older Macs. Few of those supposed tens … Read More “When Apps Go Rogue” »

FBI (and Others) Shut Down Genesis Market

Posted on April 5, 2023 By infossl
botnets, credentials, cybercrime, fbi, law enforcement, Security technology, Uncategorized

Genesis Market is shut down: Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stolen credentials. But earlier today, multiple domains associated with Genesis … Read More “FBI (and Others) Shut Down Genesis Market” »

A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet

Posted on December 15, 2022 By infossl
botnets, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities

Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet: With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed command­—like its controllers did one day while Akamai was watching­—created a panic crash with an “index out of range” error. Because there’s no persistence, the bot stays down, and malicious agents would need to reinfect … Read More “A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet” »

New Sophisticated Malware

Posted on May 4, 2022 By infossl
backdoors, botnets, malware, Security technology, threat models, Uncategorized

Mandiant is reporting on a new botnet. The group, which security firm Mandiant is calling UNC3524, has spent the past 18 months burrowing into victims’ networks with unusual stealth. In cases where the group is ejected, it wastes no time reinfecting the victim environment and picking up where things left off. There are many keys … Read More “New Sophisticated Malware” »

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