Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

The attacks were monitored by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, who discovered that the Docker Engine honeypots deployed between February 27 and March 1 were compromised and used in the DDoS attacks. CrowdStrike Intelligence assesses these actors almost certainly compromised the honeypots to support pro-Ukrainian DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

Akamai security researcher Larry Cashdollar discovered the campaign after his honeypot was hit by the malware. “Examining the honeypot logs, I determined the attackers had installed the Alternate Lite WordPress theme on the system, and a new binary process was running as the www-user. ” wrote Larry Cashdollar.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2024

Shadowserver researchers observed multiple IPs testing PHP/PHP-CGI CVE-2024-4577 (Argument Injection Vulnerability) against its honeypot sensors starting on June 7th. We see multiple IPs testing PHP/PHP-CGI CVE-2024-4577 (Argument Injection Vulnerability) against our honeypot sensors starting today, June 7th.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 9, 2023

Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made—including their login details.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 342 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Security researchers discovered an unsecured database exposed online containing the personal information of millions of visitors to Thailand. While the IP address of the database is still public, the database was taken offline and has been replaced with a honeypot. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The researchers discovered the threat after a sample of the malware targeted one Akamai honeypot. The attackers dropped a PHP malware sample through a backdoor linked to a WordPress plugin called Download-monitor, which was installed after the honeypot was accessed. ” said Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In October, Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) noticed an anomalous activity to the company’s honeypots targeting a rarely used TCP port. “In late October 2023, we noticed a small uptick in activity to our honeypots targeting a rarely used TCP port.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

BadPackets experts observed on August 22 a mass scanning activity targeting Pulse Secure “Pulse Connect Secure” VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510. On August 22, BadPackets experts observed a mass scanning activity targeting Pulse Secure “Pulse Connect Secure” VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

Uptycs researchers identified ongoing malicious campaigns through our Docker honeypot targeting exposed Docker API. The Uptycs Threat Research team has identified ongoing malicious campaigns through our Docker honeypot targeting exposed Docker API port 2375. Figure 7:honeypot log – crypto miner attack. Figure 8: aaa.sh

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The flaw was discovered by the security researcher Voidfyoo from Chaitin Security Research Lab. Security researchers from SANS Technology Institute set up a collection of honeypots set up allowed the researchers to catch a series of attacks shortly after the exploit code for CVE-2020-14882 was publicly available.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 24, 2020

The honeypot demonstrates the various security concerns plaguing vulnerable industrial control systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 306 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library. The post Two Linux botnets already exploit Log4Shell flaw in Log4j appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Security experts from Netscout Asert discovered more than ten Mirai bot variants attempting to exploit a recently disclosed flaw in Hadoop YARN on Intel servers. “ASERT has been monitoring exploit attempts for the Hadoop YARN vulnerability in our honeypot network and found a familiar, but surprising payload – Mirai.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2024

Multiple threat actors exploit a recently disclosed security PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. ” reported Akamai. . ” reported Akamai. In June, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The flaw was discovered by the security researcher Voidfyoo from Chaitin Security Research Lab, it was addressed in Oracle’s October 2020 Critical Patch Update. In early November, Oracle issued an out-of-band security update to address another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-14882.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The malware was first spotted on February 9, 2022, when 360Netlab’s honeypot system captured an unknown ELF file that was spreading by exploiting the Log4J vulnerability. The post B1txor20 Linux botnet use DNS Tunnel and Log4J exploit appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. Security Affairs – IoT devices, hacking ).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Experts at Bad Packets observed a scan targeting their honeypot, further investigation allowed them to discover that they were leaking the local network access details. “On Friday, December 21, 2018, our honeypots observed an interesting scan consisting of a GET request for /get_getnetworkconf.cgi. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Fake Honeypots. The fake honeypots are quite similar to the fake Wi-Fi access points, but the only difference is that the honeypot is set in a more sophisticated manner. It is certain that one of these is a honeypot which is there to capture users’ data and use their sensitive information in the wrong way.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

On December 6, The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) published the first update to the InfectedSlurs advisory series. The security firm revealed that threat actors were exploiting a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49897 (CVSS score 8.0) and earlier. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In June security firms Bitdefender and Barracuda discovered new IPStorm versions that are able to target also Android, Linux, and Mac. The experts from both security firms reported that IPStorm was infecting Android systems with ADB (Android Debug Bridge) port exposed online. ” reads the Intezer’s report.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The Shadowserver Foundation , a nonprofit that helps network owners identify and fix security threats , says it has found 21,248 different Exchange servers which appear to be compromised by a backdoor and communicating with brian[.]krebsonsecurity[.]top Just my Social Security number. krebsonsecurity[.]top I’d been doxed via DNS.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

Security researchers publicly disclosed technical details of the vulnerability. Marinho noticed some attacks hit one of his honeypots attempting to exploit this Jenkins vulnerability to deliver the Kerberods cryptominer. The post Hackers exploit Jenkins flaw CVE-2018-1000861 to Kerberods malware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security experts discovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet dubbed Roboto that is targeting Linux servers running unpatched Webmin installs. In October one of the honeypots of the company captured the bot, its downloader , and some bot modules. ” reads the analysis published by 360 Netlab. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The flaw was discovered by the security researcher Voidfyoo from Chaitin Security Research Lab. In October, security researchers from SANS Technology Institute set up a collection of honeypots set up allowed the researchers to catch a series of attacks shortly after the exploit code for CVE-2020-14882 was publicly available.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2024

Researchers from Cado Security observed a new Linux malware campaign targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances. Cado Security Labs researchers discovered this campaign after detecting initial access activity on a Docker Engine API honeypot. ” reads the report from Cado Security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Security researchers have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit , the attack aims at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems. In June the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Last week, Fortinet has released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb solutions. The vulnerability was internally discovered and reported by Gwendal Guégniaud of Fortinet Product Security team. “An The CVE-2022-39952 flaw (CVSS score of 9.8) reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Aqua Security Nautilus researchers discovered a new Linux malware, called Hadooken, targeting Weblogic servers. In the attack against the company Weblogic honeypots exposing both vulnerabilities and a weak password, threat actors exploited the weak password to gain initial access to the server and achieve remote code execution.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

On-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released, security SAP security firm Onapsis warns. According to a joint study published by Onapsis and SAP, on-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

Cybersecurity experts from NCC Group and Bad Packets security firm this week detected a wave of attacks exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22986 , in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ networking devices. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Below is the video PoC of the zero-day exploitation: According to Resecurity, the vulnerability was identified by the cause of abnormal traffic monitoring which consisted of a network of “honeypot” sensors to emulate common IoT devices developed by Resecurity are to hunt for malice on the internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Security experts are now trying to alert and assist these victims before malicious hackers launch what many refer to with a mix of dread and anticipation as “Stage 2,” when the bad guys revisit all these hacked servers and seed them with ransomware or else additional hacking tools for crawling even deeper into victim networks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. They only expose port 3389. pic.twitter.com/VdiKoqAwkr — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2019. ” concludes Microsoft.

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