Russia's Forest Blizzard Nabs Rafts of Logins via SOHO Routers
Heard of fileless malware? How about malwareless cyber espionage? Russia's APT28 is spying on global organizations by modifying just one DNS setting in vulnerable routers.
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Heard of fileless malware? How about malwareless cyber espionage? Russia's APT28 is spying on global organizations by modifying just one DNS setting in vulnerable routers.
The cybercriminals infected older wireless Internet routers with Anyproxy and 5socks malware in order to reconfigure them — all without the users' knowledge.
In the past, the vulnerability was exploited to drop Mirai botnet malware. Today, it's being used once more for another botnet campaign with its own malware.
The newly discovered malware, which has so far mainly targeted Turkish telcos and has links to HiatusRat, infects routers and performs DNS and HTTP hijacking attacks on connections to private IP addresses.
Outdated SOHO routers and IoT devices being hijacked by TheMoon to operate an anonymous hacker botnet service called Faceless.
The feds disrupted a Russian intelligence SOHO router botnet notable for being built with Moobot malware rather than custom code.
The nation-stage threat group deployed custom malware on archaic versions of Cisco's router operating system. Experts warn that such attacks targeting network infrastructure are on the rise.
Two novel malware binaries, including "HiatusRAT," offer unique capabilities that point to the need for better security for companies' router infrastructure.
Unpatched Cisco bugs, tracked as CVE-2023-20025 and CVE-2023-20026, allow lateral movement, data theft, and malware infestations.
The malware has been in circulation since 2020, with sophisticated, advanced malicious actors taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in SOHO routers as the work-from-home population expands rapidly.