More than 74,000 PCs at nearly 2,500 organizations around the globe have been compromised over the past year and a half in a botnet infestation. Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon. Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces. Read the full article here: Researchers lack confidence in organizations’ defenses against looming Russian cyberattacks, @wirelesswench report.
Source: https://threatpost.com/kneber-botnet-infiltrated-74000-systems-021810/73558/