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Fear the Reaper, or Reaper Madness?

October 27, 2017 admin Arbor Networks, ASERT, booter, Check Point, Maya Horowitz, Mirai, Netlab 360, Other, Reaper IoT malware, Reaper Madness, stresser

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:39:21 +0000

Last week we looked at reports from China and Israel about a new “Internet of Things” malware strain called “Reaper” that researchers said infected more than a million organizations by targeting newfound security weaknesses in countless Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs). Now some botnet experts are calling on people to stop the “Reaper Madness,” saying the actual number of IoT devices infected with Reaper right now is much smaller. Arbor Networks said it believes the current actual size of the Reaper botnet fluctuates between 10,000 and 20,000 bots total. Arbor notes that this can change any time.

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Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer

April 6, 2017 admin Arbor Networks, Augustin Inzirillo, Daniel Inzirillo, FlokiBot, GitHub, Gosya, IBM X-Force, Ilya Kolmanovich, Limor Kessem, Nuclear Bot, Nukebot, Other, Trusteer Rapport

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:22:55 +0000

The author of a banking Trojan called Nuclear Bot — a teenager living in France — recently released the source code for his creation just months after the malware began showing up for sale in cybercrime forums. Now the young man’s father is trying to convince him not to act on a job offer in the United States, fearing it may be a trap set by law enforcement agents.