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Iran Accuses US of Using Backdoors to Disrupt Networking Gear

Iranian media is accusing the US of sneaking backdoors into networking gear to disrupt operations amid the ongoing war, with Chinese state media echoing the claims globally. But what's really at stake when these explosive cyber-accusations make international headlines?

https://osintsights.com/iran-accuses-us-of-using-backdoors-to-disrupt-networking-gear?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#NationState #CyberWarfare #Backdoors #Botnets #Iran

Iran Accuses US of Using Backdoors to Disrupt Networking Gear

Iranian media is accusing the US of sneaking backdoors into networking gear to disrupt operations amid the ongoing war, with Chinese state media echoing the claims globally. But what's really at stake when these explosive cyber-accusations make international headlines?

https://osintsights.com/iran-accuses-us-of-using-backdoors-to-disrupt-networking-gear?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#NationState #CyberWarfare #Backdoors #Botnets #Iran

*Oddly enough it's the North Koreans who are probably gonna give you your wish here. #InternetofThings #securitythreat #botnets #untenable #theft #cyberwar #appliances #bricked

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:afsme5rdjnogjfbxhio2uwmf/post/3mjb44x2ins22

*Oddly enough it's the North Koreans who are probably gonna give you your wish here. #InternetofThings #securitythreat #botnets #untenable #theft #cyberwar #appliances #bricked

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:afsme5rdjnogjfbxhio2uwmf/post/3mjb44x2ins22

*Oddly enough it's the North Koreans who are probably gonna give you your wish here. #InternetofThings #securitythreat #botnets #untenable #theft #cyberwar #appliances #bricked

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:afsme5rdjnogjfbxhio2uwmf/post/3mjb44x2ins22

*Oddly enough it's the North Koreans who are probably gonna give you your wish here. #InternetofThings #securitythreat #botnets #untenable #theft #cyberwar #appliances #bricked

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:afsme5rdjnogjfbxhio2uwmf/post/3mjb44x2ins22

The Internet Last Week

* IETF 125
https://www.ietf.org/meeting/125/
* Cuba power outage effects
https://noc.social/@cloudflareradar/116240190351546459
https://mastodon.social/@IODA/116246041272623316
https://infosec.exchange/@dougmadory/116240466331483809
https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116240861464667713
* IoT DDoS botnets disrupted
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/authorities-disrupt-worlds-largest-iot-ddos-botnets-responsible-record-breaking-attacks
* Unallocated IP4 /13 announced
https://infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/116250561577999852
https://bgp.he.net/net/102.224.0.0/13
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history#resource=102.224.0.0/13&starttime=2026-03-15
* CAs must perform DNSSEC validation
https://cabforum.org/2025/06/18/ballot-sc-085v2-require-validation-of-dnssec-when-present-for-caa-and-dcv-lookups/
https://infosec.exchange/@mnordhoff/116240122433847371

#IETF125 #Cuba #Botnets #Bogons #DNSSEC #X509

🚨 Oh no, folks! The mighty #Cloudflare has decided that #archive.today is now a sinister villain in the world of #botnets. 😱 But don't worry, they have the ultimate security measure: enabling #JavaScript and cookies! 🍪 Because we all know that's impenetrable, right? 🤣
https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/archive.today #today #cookies #HackerNews #ngated

"The collection of millions of hacked computers known as Aisuru and Kimwolf have been used to launch some of the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever seen. Now United States law enforcement agencies have wiped both of them off the internet, along with two of the other hordes of hijacked computers—known as botnets—in a single broad takedown.

On Thursday, the US Department of Justice, working with the cybercrime-fighting agency within the US Department of Defense known as the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, announced that it had dismantled four massive botnets in a single operation, removing the command-and-control servers used to commandeer the hacker-run armies of compromised devices known by the names JackSkid, Mossad, Aisuru, and Kimwolf. Together, operators of the four botnets had amassed more than 3 million devices, the Justice Department said, and often sold access to those devices to other criminal hackers as well as using them to target victims with overwhelming floods of attack traffic to knock websites and internet services offline.

Aisuru and Kimwolf, a distinct but Aisuru-related botnet, had together comprised more than a million devices, according to DDoS defense firm Cloudflare, with Aisuru infecting a variety of devices ranging from DVRs to network appliances to webcams, and its Kimwolf offshoot infecting Android devices including smart TVs and set-top boxes."

https://www.wired.com/story/us-takes-down-botnets-used-in-record-breaking-cyberattacks/

#CyberSecurity #Botnets #DDoS #Aisuru #Kimwolf

Força-tarefa global desmantela botnets que atacaram mais de 3 milhões de dispositivos

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://convergenciadigital.com.br/mercado/forca-tarefa-global-desmantela-botnets-que-atacaram-mais-de-3-milhoes-de-dispositivos/

US Takes Down #Botnets Used in Record-Breaking #Cyberattacks

The #Aisuru , #Kimwolf , #JackSkid , and #Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department.
#doj #privacy #security

https://www.wired.com/story/us-takes-down-botnets-used-in-record-breaking-cyberattacks/

Feds Disrupt #IoT #Botnets Behind Huge #DDoS Attacks

#doj joined authorities in #Canada & #Germany in dismantling the online #infrastructure behind 4 highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than 3 million Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as #routers & web #cameras. The feds say the 4 botnets — named #Aisuru , #Kimwolf , #JackSkid & #Mossad — are responsible for a series of recent record-smashing DDoS attacks capable of knocking nearly any target offline

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/feds-disrupt-iot-botnets-behind-huge-ddos-attacks/

#Rustdesk durch Angriffe eines #Botnets zeitweise offline

https://borncity.com/blog/2026/02/06/rustdesk-durch-botnet-angriffe-immer-wieder-offline/

Instead, threats are shifting to weaker networks and resilient rogue hosting providers, while botnet controller domains continue to rise 🌐⬆️.

Read the full Botnet Spotlight here 👉 https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/botnet-c-c/botnet-spotlight-pressure-rises-on-botnets-but-the-fight-is-far-from-over/

#Botnets #Malware #BulletproofHosts

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Who Benefited from the #Aisuru and #Kimwolf #Botnets ?
#security

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/who-benefited-from-the-aisuru-and-kimwolf-botnets/

Lifehacker: This Tool Can Tell You If Your Home Network Has Been Compromised. “IP Check, from threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, will alert you if your IP address has been observed scanning the internet as part of a botnet or residential proxy network.”

GreyNoise launches a free scanner to check if you’re part of a botnet

“GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks. The threat monitoring firm that tracks inter ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/greynoise-launches-a-free-scanner-to-check-if-youre-part-of-a-botnet/

#botnets #privacy #technology

GreyNoise launches a free scanner to check if you’re part of a botnet

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-665eff8d-ce0c7ae198960145

Hyper-volumetric IoT botnets rewrite enterprise resilience rules https://iottechnews.com/news/hyper-volumetric-iot-botnets-rewrite-enterprise-resilience-rules/ #iot #botnets #cloudflare #infosec #cybersecurity #tech #news #technology

Superbox and other “lifetime free TV” Android boxes are not just a piracy headache. Some of them look a lot like quiet botnet nodes and residential proxy endpoints sitting on your living room shelf.

I broke down how these boxes hijack DNS, join proxy networks, and undermine home and small business networks, plus what to do if you already own one.

🔗 Read the full breakdown: https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/your-android-tv-box-might-be-a-botnet-farm-without-you-knowing-a-deep-dive/

#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #IoT #AndroidTV #Botnets #HomeNetwork

Bin ich Teil eines Botnets? Jetzt kostenlos nachprüfen https://www.csoonline.com/article/4098681/bin-ich-teil-eines-botnets-jetzt-kostenlos-nachprufen.html #Cyberattacks #Cybercrime #Security #Botnets

Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1p9kxhm/belgian_federal_police_forgot_to_turn_their_vpn/

#HackerNews #BelgianPolice #Botnets #EULaw #DataManipulation #Cybersecurity

GBHackers: New GreyNoise IP Checker Helps Users Identify Botnet Activity. “The newly released GreyNoise IP Check is a simple, web-based tool that allows anyone to instantly verify whether their internet connection is being used by a botnet or a residential proxy network.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/29/gbhackers-new-greynoise-ip-checker-helps-users-identify-botnet-activity/

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/11/25/x-feature-accidentally-exposes-foreign-influence-operations-xcxwbn/

New X Feature Accidentally Exposes Foreign Influence MAGA Operations

#SocialMedia #ElonMusk #X #Disinformation #Privacy #Security #Politics #ForeignInfluence #TrustAndSafety #ContentModeration #Botnets #Cybersecurity #ClickFarms

Russia‘s #propaganda #botnets are going all in with their German Bundeswehr anxiety today. They REALLY don‘t want more of that. All of these are fake of course. The last one (next post) is particularly funny. #matryoshka

Russia‘s #propaganda #botnets are going all in with their German Bundeswehr anxiety today. They REALLY don‘t want more of that. All of these are fake of course. The last one (next post) is particularly funny. #matryoshka

...I should mention, that was me setting up a #TURN (coturn) server.

So maybe that's real "line noise" from relaying other people's chats?

Hm.
But `/download/file.php?withOnlyIDentifiersNoNames` still looks 🧊 more like a backdoor probe, or clever file-sharing #botnets? 🥶

Too busy to investigate further, but any hints welcome! 🕵️‍♀️ 🌞

#HowAreYourLogsToday?

An awesome guest post: Botnets Never Die on the creativity of #malware developers to be found at #APNIC. It covers details to the #AisuruBotnet, The #AIRASHIBotnet, and how their #C2 communication #protocol works.

Apparnetly, the heartbeat is a client sending cat to the C2 server, and the server responds with meow. Fun and creative.

#DDoS #Aisuru #Airashi #botnets #research #threatintel

Lees tip -> Politie haalt malafide hostingbedrijf offline | De politie heeft duizenden servers van een malafide hostingbedrijf in beslag genomen. De infrastructuur werd gebruikt voor grootschalige cybercriminaliteit in binnen- en buitenland. | #botnets #cybercrime #datacenters #denhaag #digitaleveiligheid #hostingbedrijf #inbeslagname #OostNederland #phishing #politie #ransomware #servers |

https://hbpmedia.nl/malafide-hostingbedrijf-inbeslagname-servers/

I'm happy to say a bunch of great people are offering help and vendors + hosts are (mostly) responsive to abuse reports for these #botnets. I'm still being targeted in the most personal way #Aisuru operators can. Most of that I'll talk about soon. Thanks esp. to @briankrebs

#botnets

"Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies

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 say 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."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-from-ddos-to-residential-proxies/

When AI-powered attackers can solve CAPTCHAs in seconds, even humanitarian aid isn’t safe anymore. Hackers are flooding Ukraine’s war relief systems with fake accounts and phishing scams—are we ready for this digital arms race?

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/phantomcaptcha-clickfix-how-ai-powered-attacks-are-targeting-ukraine-war-relief-efforts/

#aiattacks
#ukrainecybersecurity
#captchaevasion
#phishing
#botnets
#apt
#warrelief
#cyberthreats
#infosec

Advanced threat predictions for 2025 – Source: securelist.com https://ciso2ciso.com/advanced-threat-predictions-for-2025-source-securelist-com/ #Vulnerabilitiesandexploits #KasperskySecurityBulletin #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #ArtificialIntelligence #APT(Targetedattacks) #CyberSecurityNews #Supplychainattack #internetofthings #machinelearning #Targetedattacks #GoogleAndroid #securelistcom #Triangulation #Hacktivists #deepfakes #AppleiOS #backdoor #botnets #Drivers #BYOVD #APT #XZ

OK, this seems fun, so here's my #introduction

I'm a computer nerd from Germany, and finished my masters degree this year. I wrote my thesis about the monitoring of #p2p #botnets, the detection thereof using #graphtheory and how to prevent detection using a #collaborated #crawling approach. Beside that I did some #sSoftwareEngineering professionally and for fun.

I am generally interested in #malware, mostly oldschool parasitic viruses.

Sometimes I play #CTF.

Currently I'm looking to get into #InfoSec professionally or academically.

Other stuff I enjoy includes #rust, #linux, #OpenSource, #selfhosing, #NixOS, #FunctionalProgamming and #AnalogPhotograpgy

OK, this seems fun, so here's my #introduction

I'm a computer nerd from Germany, and finished my masters degree this year. I wrote my thesis about the monitoring of #p2p #botnets, the detection thereof using #graphtheory and how to prevent detection using a #collaborated #crawling approach. Beside that I did some #sSoftwareEngineering professionally and for fun.

I am generally interested in #malware, mostly oldschool parasitic viruses.

Sometimes I play #CTF.

Currently I'm looking to get into #InfoSec professionally or academically.

Other stuff I enjoy includes #rust, #linux, #OpenSource, #selfhosing, #NixOS, #FunctionalProgamming and #AnalogPhotograpgy

OK, this seems fun, so here's my #introduction

I'm a computer nerd from Germany, and finished my masters degree this year. I wrote my thesis about the monitoring of #p2p #botnets, the detection thereof using #graphtheory and how to prevent detection using a #collaborated #crawling approach. Beside that I did some #sSoftwareEngineering professionally and for fun.

I am generally interested in #malware, mostly oldschool parasitic viruses.

Sometimes I play #CTF.

Currently I'm looking to get into #InfoSec professionally or academically.

Other stuff I enjoy includes #rust, #linux, #OpenSource, #selfhosing, #NixOS, #FunctionalProgamming and #AnalogPhotograpgy

OK, this seems fun, so here's my #introduction

I'm a computer nerd from Germany, and finished my masters degree this year. I wrote my thesis about the monitoring of #p2p #botnets, the detection thereof using #graphtheory and how to prevent detection using a #collaborated #crawling approach. Beside that I did some #sSoftwareEngineering professionally and for fun.

I am generally interested in #malware, mostly oldschool parasitic viruses.

Sometimes I play #CTF.

Currently I'm looking to get into #InfoSec professionally or academically.

Other stuff I enjoy includes #rust, #linux, #OpenSource, #selfhosing, #NixOS, #FunctionalProgamming and #AnalogPhotograpgy

OK, this seems fun, so here's my #introduction

I'm a computer nerd from Germany, and finished my masters degree this year. I wrote my thesis about the monitoring of #p2p #botnets, the detection thereof using #graphtheory and how to prevent detection using a #collaborated #crawling approach. Beside that I did some #sSoftwareEngineering professionally and for fun.

I am generally interested in #malware, mostly oldschool parasitic viruses.

Sometimes I play #CTF.

Currently I'm looking to get into #InfoSec professionally or academically.

Other stuff I enjoy includes #rust, #linux, #OpenSource, #selfhosing, #NixOS, #FunctionalProgamming and #AnalogPhotograpgy