In the reconnaissance phase, a bad actor can determine which targets to attack through batch scanning. Such scanning is often focused on user names and passwords for access to and vulnerabilities in devices. Besides, an attacker may try to compromise targets by delivering malicious baits to their email addresses collected...
Tag: Botnet Trend Report
Botnet Trend Report -3
Botnets can pose a variety of cyber threats. NSFOCUS Security Labs has been focused on the capture, track, and study of botnet-related threats. In 2019, the Labs further upgraded its capturing and tracking techniques and capabilities and expanded its scope of interest to cover more diverse threats, including cryptojacking, ransomware...
Botnet Trend Report -2
2019 witnessed frequent breakout of cybersecurity events, in which malware played an important role, exhibiting an eye-popping power of destruction with botnets. At the end of 2018, Driver Talent suffered a supply chain attack as a result of its upgrade channel being planted with a Monero mining trojan, which, once...
Botnet Trend Report 1
Executive Summary With the rapid advancement of computer technologies and more and more network devices joining the Internet, the global Internet has expanded at an unbelievably high speed. However, efforts made in enhancing cybersecurity are lagging far behind the growth of the Internet, leaving an ever-growing gap in between. Many...
Botnet Trend Report-14
Conclusion and Recommendations In 2018, botnets continued using DDoS as their primary weapon to attack regions with ubiquitous high speed networking for direct economic gains. However, they underwent significant changes in behavioral patterns, host platforms, C&C server deployment, infection methods, attack methods, and payload types. Security service providers need to...
Botnet Trend Report-13
4.4 Satan: Evolving Ransomware In late April 2018, MalwareHunterTeam reported seeing new ransomware that leveraged EternalBlue to propagate. Through analysis, we found that the ransomware was based on a new version (dubbed V2) of Satan, a ransomware family launched in 2017. The ransom demanded in this version increased from 0.1...
