Conclusion Botnets have evolved to use weak passwords, exploits, and phishing emails as major propagation and intrusion means. Dormant attackers that are seeking opportunities to do wrong tend to exploit vulnerabilities during the time between vulnerability disclosure and remediation. Botnet hackers often exploit newly revealed vulnerabilities to infect new targets...
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Botnet Trend Report 2019-15
Five Major APT Groups In 2019, NSFOCUS Security Labs tracked and delved into five major APT groups: BITTER, OceanLotus, MuddyWater, APT34, and FIN7. The following sections illustrate the latest developments of these APT groups by explaining how they optimize attack chains, refine attack methods, and sharpen RAT tools. BITTER BITTER...
Botnet Trend Report 2019-14
New Trends of APT Groups Here are three trends that shaped APT groups in 2019: Firstly, mobile devices became common constituents of the attack surface. In 2019, MuddyWater developed malicious files against Android platforms, heading towards mobile devices. Google's Project Zero team revealed five exploit chains deployed in the wild...
Botnet Trend Report 2019-13
Mirai At present, Mirai is among the biggest IoT botnet families which have the most variants and infect the most devices to impose the most extensive impact. In 2019, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured 10,635 Mirai samples in total (excluding the repetitive malware arising from cross compilation), identified 1660 C&C addresses,...
Botnet Trend Report 2019-12
This chapter describes active botnet families under long-term tracking of and other families newly captured by NSFOCUS Security Labs, from the perspectives of their background, activity, and association with other families. Botnet Families GoBrut Malware in the GoBrut family, written in Go, made its debut in early 2019, in a...
Botnet Trend Report 2019-11
Overview Overall, malware on mobile platforms, though evolving in the same way as those on PC, has a complex composition. In 2019, ad apps still dominated the list of malware threatening the security of Android users. Potentially dangerous software involving sensitive operations also made up a large proportion. Agent programs...
