Saturday, January 11

Tag: Sekoia

Quad7 botnet targets more SOHO and VPN routers, media servers

Quad7 botnet targets more SOHO and VPN routers, media servers

Technology
The Quad7 botnet is progressing its operation by targeting extra SOHO gadgets with brand-new customized malware for Zyxel VPN devices, Ruckus cordless routers, and Axentra media servers. This is available in addition to the TP-Link routers reported formerly by Sekoia, and initially reported by scientist Gi7w0rm, who provided the botnet its name due to targeting port 7777. The ASUS routers targeted by a different cluster found by Team Cymru 2 weeks later on. Sekoia has actually put together a brand-new report cautioning about the advancement of Quad7, that includes establishing brand-new staging servers, introducing brand-new botnet clusters, utilizing brand-new backdoors and reverse shells, and moving far from SOCKS proxies for a stealthier operation. A Bitsight report likewise supplied b...