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Password Report: Honeypot Data Shows Bot Attack Trends Against RDP, SSH

Issued by: Security Week

An analysis of data collected by Rapid7’s RDP and SSH honeypots between September 10, 2021, and September 9, 2022, found tens of millions of connection attempts. The honeypots captured 215,894 unique IP source addresses and 512,002 unique passwords across RDP and SSH honeypots. Almost all the passwords (99.997%) can be found in rockyou2021.txt. In 2009,…

Malware & Threats

LemonDuck no longer settles for breadcrumbs

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

LemonDuck has evolved from a Monero cryptominer into LemonCat, a Trojan that specializes in backdoor installation, credential and data theft, and malware delivery, according to the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, which explained their findings in a two-part story [1][2] on the Microsoft Security blog. LemonDuck Trojan.LemonDuck has always been an advanced cryptominer that…

Malware & Threats

Rakos Malware Takes Over Embedded Linux Devices

Issued by: Security Week

A recently observed piece of malware targeting embedded Linux systems can provide attackers with full control over the infected devices, ESET security researchers warn. Dubbed Rakos, the newly discovered malware is attacking vulnerable devices via brute force SSH login attempts, a method already observed in various other Linux threats. The new malicious program is looking to infect…