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Username or Email Address Password Remember Me Key Takeaways The Sekoia TDR team has recently identified new staging servers, leading to the discovery of additional targets, implants, and botnet clusters tied to the Quad7 operators. The Quad7 botnet operators seem to be compromising several brands of SOHO routers and VPN appliances, including TP-LINK, Zyxel, Asus, Axentra, D-Link, and Netgear, using multiple vulnerabilities—some of which are previously unknown.
Key Takeaways Sekoia.io investigated the mysterious 7777 botnet (aka. Quad7 botnet), published by the independent researcher Gi7w0rm inside the “The curious case of the 7777 botnet” blogpost. This investigation allowed us to intercept network communications and malware deployed on a TP-Link router compromised by the Quad7 botnet in France.
Scattered Spider (aka UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Muddled Libra, Octo Tempest, Oktapus, StarFraud) is a lucrative intrusion set active since at least May 2022, primarily engaged in social engineering, ransomware, extortion campaigns and other advanced techniques.
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