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Surprisingly stealthy botnet has been targeting users for years

ESET researchers have unearthed a botnet of some 500,000 infected machines engaged mostly in ad-related fraud by using malicious Chrome extensions, but also Facebook fraud and brute-forcing Joomla and WordPress websites. In addition to this, the compromised machines are also equipped with a fully featured backdoor, which allows the operators to spy on all the victims, and to download additional malware on the computers. A long-standing operation There are many unusual things about the so-called … More ?

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Surprisingly stealthy botnet has been targeting users for years

80 Sony IP camera models come with backdoors

80 different models of Sony IPELA Engine IP Cameras have multiple backdoors that can be misused by attackers to take control of the device, disrupt its functionality, add it to a botnet, and more. Researchers from SEC Consult discovered two application-level backdoor accounts (“primana” and “debug”) with hardcoded passwords, the hashes of which are included in the devices’ firmware. The hashes can be cracked, and through these accounts, attackers can access specific, undocumented CGI functionalities. … More ?

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80 Sony IP camera models come with backdoors

Twitter-controlled Android backdoor delivers banking malware

A backdoor Trojan named Twitoor is the first instance of Android malware that receives its commands from a Twitter account. Keeping their botnet out of law enforcement’s and other criminals’ hands is imperative for botmasters if they want to keep earning. C&C servers are the norm, but they can be tracked down, seized by the authorities and, ultimately, reveal crucial information about the botnet, allowing them to shut it down or cripple it. Twitter or … More ?

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Twitter-controlled Android backdoor delivers banking malware