How to defend against every day IOT threats

“Alexa, can you tell me which of my Internet of Things devices are vulnerable to an attack?” Echo: “Hmmm, I don’t know that one.” “Alexa, can anyone access my camera

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Masad Stealer: Exfiltrating using Telegram

Juniper Threat Labs discovered a new Trojan-delivered spyware that uses Telegram to exfiltrate stolen information. Using Telegram as a Command and Control (C&C) channel allows the malware some anonymity, as

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RCE Attacks Targeting Misconfigured Open PHP-FPM

On August 7, 2019, Juniper Threat Labs started seeing attacks on PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) on port 9000. This attack works by passing PHP configuration options that allows injection of

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Security Pitfalls with Multicloud Deployments

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at the Cyber Security Summit USA in Denver, CO, on the topic of cloud INsecurity. The panel needed to

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Satan Ransomware used in Multi-Platform Cryptomining and Ransomware Campaign

Juniper Threat Labs has been monitoring a campaign that delivered multiple stages of malware to install a cryptocurrency miner and ransomware. On March 16, 2019, we identified a surge in

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Anatomy of the Bulehero Cryptomining Botnet

Juniper Threat Labs recently discovered an attack campaign that installs a cryptominer and spreads throughout the network. This campaign is interesting as one of its techniques is to use the infamous

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HoneyProcs : Going Beyond Honeyfiles for Deception on Endpoints

Deploying detection solutions on an endpoint host comes with constraints – limited availability of CPU, memory, disk and other resources, stability constraints, policy adherence and restrictions, the need to be

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Virobot Ransomware

Juniper Threat Labs has been monitoring the activity of a botnet, which is now being referred to as ViroBot by TrendMicro in their blog, and would like to share additional

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Kronos – The Banking Chronicle

The Kronos banking malware family was first known to be sold in the underground market in 2014. It surfaced again in mid-2017 after being dormant for some time. Then, in

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New Worm Leverages Open Source Tools and GitHub to Build its Botnet

On September 19, 2018, Juniper Threat Labs discovered a new wave of attacks from a cryptominer worm targeting Linux servers, home networking devices, and IOT devices. These attacks were bundled

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