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Alert: New WailingCrab Malware Loader Spreading via Shipping-Themed Emails

Nov 23, 2023NewsroomMalware / Threat Analysis Delivery- and shipping-themed email messages are being used to deliver a sophisticated malware loader known as WailingCrab. “The malware itself is split into multiple components, including a loader, injector, downloader and backdoor, and successful requests to C2-controlled servers are often necessary to retrieve the next stage,” IBM X-Force researchers […]

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Mirai-based Botnet Exploiting Zero-Day Bugs in Routers and NVRs for Massive DDoS Attacks

Nov 23, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Cyber Threat An active malware campaign is leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities with remote code execution (RCE) functionality to rope routers and video recorders into a Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. “The payload targets routers and network video recorder (NVR) devices with default admin credentials and installs Mirai variants when successful,” Akamai […]

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New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days

New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2023 Mirai-based botnet InfectedSlurs has been spotted exploiting two zero-day RCE flaws to compromise routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. Akamai discovered a new Mirai-based DDoS botnet, named InfectedSlurs, actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The researchers […]