All the creatures around us are either masters who control slaves or slaves that are being controlled. Every master try to spread its region, but yes the number of slaves is always limited to per master. A master can made sub masters under its control to control more slaves. When the theory of master slave is being applied to machines, it becomes a little controversial to say who is master and who is slave as they both are controlled by humans who programmed them. When the term hacking is applied to this theory, it becomes a revenge. In the past, we have seen many trojans that are proved dangerous for…
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MUHSTIK BOTNET STRIKES AGAIN, EXPLOITING SERVERS WITH WEAK PASSWORDS
In the 21st century, we all know the importance of privacy due to growth of digital era in all sectors. Either a person is educated or not, he/she knows the fact that they have to give utmost importance to their privacy. But the word privacy sometimes have double meaning. If we take the case of tech giants or organization, they are sometimes caught up tracking your personal data which they are not authorized to do so in the name of privacy, whereas on the other hand we all know hackers steal our data to exploit our privacy. As a privileged user, you can revoke the company or organization in first…
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OUTLAW BOTNET AFFECTS MORE THAN 20,000 LINUX SERVERS
DDOS attacks are emerging day by day. We know that DDOS attack is simply sending lots of packets to the remote server that server is not able to handle, thus making it unresponsive . In short, we test the limits of the remote server . But this group changed the definition . Coming back to 2018, Trend Micro Researchers unveiled a new group named Outlaw Botnet. In 2018, this group targeted Japanese art institution as well as a Bangladeshi government site over a vulnerability on Dovecot mail server. They have been involved in these cyber criminal activities for past couple of years. This time again they regain their presence and…
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MICROSOFT UNCOVERS THE MALICIOUS DUDEAR CAMPAIGNS
Nearly 6 months ago, tech giant Microsoft once again uncovered the techniques used by malicious CHIMBORAZO group to deliver info-stealer in the victim’s machine. On January 31, Microsoft tweeted that Dudear which is one of the biggest malware campaign is delivering info-stealing trojan Gracewire by attaching HTML redirectors in the email delivered to victims. These Evil Corps attached a downloadable Excel file attaching a malicious macro that drop the actual payload Gracewire trojan into the victim’s system. Following this group since January, in the 18 June, Microsoft again announced a new technique by this group delivering the same trojan into the victim’s system. This Dudear campaign is being run by…
