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Dark Reading
While the botnet may not be completely automated, it uses certain tactics when targeting devices that indicate that it may, at the very least, be semiautomated.
Bleeping Computer
A newly discovered Go-based Linux botnet malware named PumaBot is brute-forcing SSH credentials on embedded IoT devices to deploy malicious payloads. [...]
The Hacker News
Embedded Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become the target of a new botnet dubbed PumaBot. Written in Go, the botnet is designed to conduct brute-force attacks against SSH instances to expand in size and scale and deliver additional malware to the infected hosts. "Rather than scanning the internet, the malware retrieves a list of targets from a command-and-control (C2) server
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new Linux rootkit called PUMAKIT that comes with capabilities to escalate privileges, hide files and directories, and conceal itself from system tools, while simultaneously evading detection. "PUMAKIT is a sophisticated loadable kernel module (LKM) rootkit that employs advanced stealth mechanisms to hide its presence and maintain communication with
Bleeping Computer
A new Linux rootkit malware called Pumakit has been discovered that uses stealth and advanced privilege escalation techniques to hide its presence on systems. [...]
The Hacker News
A threat actor known as Prolific Puma has been maintaining a low profile and operating an underground link shortening service that's offered to other threat actors for at least over the past four years. Prolific Puma creates "domain names with an RDGA [registered domain generation algorithm] and use these domains to provide a link shortening service to other malicious actors, helping them evade
Dark Reading
Cybercriminals are upping their phishing with shortened links and showing that coveted, regulated top-level domains aren't as exclusive as you'd think.
Bleeping Computer
Sportswear manufacturer Puma was hit by a data breach following the ransomware attack that hit Kronos, one of its North American workforce management service providers, in December 2021. [...]
Bleeping Computer
A threat actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years while keeping a sufficiently low profile to operate undetected. [...]