US-led action sinkholes machines caught up in Sality botnet
Tag: MALWARE
Earth Berberoka-Linked Hackers Target Brazil With Linux Malware and SEO Poisoning
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster linked to the Earth Berberoka threat actor has compromised Brazilian government and educational web servers to…
Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes
The advice is to consume shared threat intelligence. Join the ISAC. Wire the community feeds into your pipeline. This looks like a fine advice and I agree…
CrowdStrike Disrupts Sality Botnet After More Than 20 Years
CrowdStrike and international partners disrupted the 20-year-old Sality botnet, cutting off its operator.
Russian Man Extradited Over Malware Campaign Targeting Freelancers
Russian man extradited to US over malware campaign that targeted 80,000 freelance users
Authorities Disrupted 20-Year-Old Sality Botnet Controlling 15,000+ Infected Systems
The Department of Justice has confirmed a coordinated international takedown of the Sality botnet, a peer-to-peer malware network that has plagued victims…
BREEZE COMET Hackers Use AI-Assisted Malware to Target Brazil Banks for Fraudulent Transfers
Brazilian banks and payment companies are facing a more direct form of cybercrime. BREEZE COMET, a financially motivated group formerly tracked as…
Russian Hacker Indicted for Using Excel Malware to Target 80,000 Freelancers With TVRAT and DarkVNC
A Russian national has been indicted in the United States over an alleged malware operation that targeted roughly 80,000 freelance workers worldwide.…
Ransomware Hackers Use New TukTuk Malware to Steal Credentials and Disable Security Tools
Ransomware operators are using a previously undocumented remote-control framework called TukTuk to steal credentials, watch compromised machines, and…
Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a…
Anthropic: Infostealer Malware Hacks Claude Sessions to Drain Consumption Usage
Anthropic has warned Claude users that infostealer malware on their systems has stolen active Claude login sessions, letting threat actors to log into…
Iran-linked APT Mirage Kitten Uses Fake Job Tests to Spread Malware
Mirage Kitten used fake LinkedIn coding tests to spread NodeRabbit and PollCat, even banning AI tools that could have spotted the malware. Iran-linked…
Researchers Take Down 20-Year-Old Russian Botnet
Security researchers, US, European authorities infiltrate, disable two-decade-old ‘Sality’ botnet that operates out of Russia
Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a…
23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted
The shutdown operation involved peer list manipulation and Sality payload URL takedown.
Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run
Sality, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that had been running for 23 years and infecting more than 15,000 machines worldwide, has been taken down in a joint…
Global public-private operation disrupts Sality botnet active for two decades
An international operation supported by Europol has disrupted the Sality peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, a long-running criminal infrastructure used to…
Hackers Hide a Full Remote Access Trojan Inside a Real Exodus Crypto Wallet
Cybercriminals have been caught using a tampered installer for the Exodus cryptocurrency wallet to plant a full remote access trojan. The program looks…
Authorities Turn Sality’s P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a…
Trojanized Exodus Wallet Installer Deploys RAT to Steal Browser Credentials and Cookies
A sophisticated malware campaign has abused a trojanized installer for the legitimate Exodus cryptocurrency wallet to deploy a modular remote access…