Introduction The Necurs botnet has a well-known and sordid history of criminal endeavors. Today, it is regarded as one of the most prolific spam and malware distribution botnets in existence. However, despite its reputation for delivering spam, its operators have […]
Over the past year, CenturyLink Threat Research Labs has been tracking an IoT botnet called “TheMoon”. TheMoon is a modular botnet specifically targeting vulnerabilities in routers within broadband networks. Since its identification in early 2014 [1], the botnet has evolved […]
CenturyLink Threat Research Labs has been tracking the Mylobot botnet, a sophisticated malware family that is categorized as a downloader. What makes Mylobot dangerous is its ability to download and execute any type of payload after it infects a host. […]
The Mirai malware began its life as a weapon in turf wars between feuding video game server operators. In the two years since it debuted, it has seen heavy adoption as a general DDoS attack platform around the world. Although […]
Level 3 Threat Research Labs has previously reported on a family of malware that exploits Internet of Things (IoT) devices to create distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets. With a rapidly increasing market for these devices and little attention being paid to […]
Introduction On August 13, a previously unknown organization named the “Shadow Brokers” released files claiming to be tools used by the hacking organization named the “Equation Group”. Kaspersky dubbed this name for the organization in February of 2015, when they […]
The rush to connect everything to the internet is leaving millions of everyday products vulnerable and ripe for abuse. We’ve seen internet connectivity added to appliances, athletic clothing, pill bottles and even forks. Security, if it’s considered at all, is […]
It was worse than was thought, but a lot better than it could have been. This past Saturday, February the 20th, it was discovered that one of the most popular Linux desktop distributions had its installation image backdoored. The links […]
The faster those of us in the security and network operator space can detect a new attack vector, the faster we can come up with ways to slow or stall the growth of that method. To accomplish this, Level 3 […]
If you use a credit card to make purchases at your local retailer, gas station, restaurant or bar, it can be compromised – if it isn’t already. Black market demand for user and credit card data has made Point of […]
