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Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic. Experts says a glut of proxies from Aisuru and other sources is fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts tied to various artificial intelligence (AI) projects, helping content scrapers evade detection by routing their traffic through residential connections that appear to be regular Internet users.

The Qilin ransomware operation was spotted executing Linux encryptors in Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to evade detection by traditional security tools. [...]

A new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform named Atroposia provides cybercriminals a remote access trojan that combines capabilities for persistent access, evasion, data theft, and local vulnerability scanning. [...]

A new Android malware family, Herodotus, uses random delay injection in its input routines to mimic human behavior on mobile devices and evade timing-based detection by security software. [...]

The attack by the one of the most impactful RaaS groups active today demonstrates an evasion strategy that can stump defenses not equipped to detect cross-platform threats.