{"id":199262,"date":"2024-11-11T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/androxgh0st-malware-integrates-mozi-botnet-to-target-iot-and-cloud-services"},"modified":"2024-11-11T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:33:29","slug":"androxgh0st-malware-integrates-mozi-botnet-to-target-iot-and-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/androxgh0st-malware-integrates-mozi-botnet-to-target-iot-and-cloud-services","title":{"rendered":"AndroxGh0st Malware Integrates Mozi Botnet to Target IoT and Cloud Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/androxgh0st-malware-integrates-mozi-botnet-to-target-iot-and-cloud-services.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The threat actors behind the AndroxGh0st malware are now exploiting a broader set of security flaws impacting various internet-facing applications, while also deploying the Mozi botnet malware.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis botnet utilizes remote code execution and credential-stealing methods to maintain persistent access, leveraging unpatched vulnerabilities to infiltrate critical infrastructures,\u201d CloudSEK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudsek.com\/blog\/mozi-resurfaces-as-androxgh0st-botnet-unraveling-the-latest-exploitation-wave\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a new report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/03\/androxgh0st-malware-targets-laravel.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AndroxGh0st<\/a> is the name given to a Python-based cloud attack tool that\u2019s known for its targeting of Laravel applications with the goal of sensitive data pertaining to services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), SendGrid, and Twilio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat actors behind the AndroxGh0st malware are now exploiting a broader set of security flaws impacting various internet-facing applications, while also deploying the Mozi botnet malware. \u201cThis botnet utilizes remote code execution and credential-stealing methods to maintain persistent access, leveraging unpatched vulnerabilities to infiltrate critical infrastructures,\u201d CloudSEK said in a new report. AndroxGh0st is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}