Tag: ngioweb

The ngioweb botnet serves as the foundation for the NSOCKS criminal proxy service, maintaining over 35,000 bots daily across 180 countries. The botnet primarily targets SOHO routers and IoT devices, with two-thirds of proxies based in the U.S. NSOCKS utilizes over 180 'backconnect' C2 nodes to obsc…

Water Barghest, a cybercriminal group, has developed a highly automated system for exploiting and monetizing IoT devices. Their botnet, comprising over 20,000 devices as of October 2024, uses automated scripts to identify and compromise vulnerable IoT devices from public internet scan databases. On…

TrendMicro highlights the dangers of internet-facing routers and elaborates on Pawn Storm's exploitation of EdgeRouters, complementing the FBI's advisory from February 27, 2024. Cybercriminals and nation-state actors share an interest in compromised routers used as an anonymization layer, with cybe…