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Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) uncovered an IoT botnet operation that 100 times within one month. Analyzing further DCU team able to map 400,000 publicly available IPs and narrowed 90 suspicious IPs. The botnets continue to increase, as the threat actors can abuse millions of devices to carry out malicious activities. Major Malware Attack Out of 90 suspicious IP DCU able to define one IP that associated with the distribution of several malicious activities including malware, phishing emails, ransomware, and DDoS attacks. The issue has been further reported by DCU to Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB), who tracked down the illegal VPN IP quickly and the accounts behind it. Generally, cybercriminals use compromise PCs to launch cyberattacks, but this time an IOT LED light control console is used. MJIB managed to shut down the device quickly. “This case marks a milestone. That’s because we were able to take down the IoT device and secure the br...

A new version of the infamous Mirai botnet is exploiting a recently uncovered critical vulnerability in network-attached storage (NAS) devices in an attempt to remotely infect and control vulnerable machines. Called " Mukashi ," the new variant of the malware employs brute-force attacks using different combinations of default credentials to log into Zyxel NAS, UTM, ATP, and VPN firewall products to take control of the devices and add them to a network of infected bots that can be used to carry out Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Multiple Zyxel NAS products running firmware versions up to 5.21 are vulnerable to the compromise, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 global threat intelligence team said, adding they uncovered the first such exploitation of the flaw in the wild on March 12. Zyxel's Pre-Authentication Command Injection Flaw Mukashi hinges on a pre-authentication  command injection vulnerability  (tracked as  CVE-2020-9054 ), for which a proof-of-...

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered details of two new vulnerabilities in the GoAhead web server software, a tiny application widely embedded in hundreds of millions of Internet-connected smart devices. One of the two vulnerabilities, assigned as CVE-2019-5096, is a critical code execution flaw that can be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable devices and take control over them. The first vulnerability resides in the way multi-part/form-data requests are processed within the base GoAhead web server application, affecting GoAhead Web Server versions v5.0.1, v.4.1.1, and v3.6.5. According to the researchers at Cisco Talos, while processing a specially crafted HTTP request, an attacker exploiting the vulnerability can cause use-after-free condition on the server and corrupt heap structures, leading to code execution attacks. The second vulnerability, assigned as CVE-2019-5097, also resides in the same component of the GoAhead Web Server and can be exp...