EnemyBot malware adds enterprise flaws to its arsenal • The Register

EnemyBot, a botnet that seems to be amalgam of source code from other high-profile bots, is adding new exploits and targets to its arsenal.

To make a bad situation worse, EnemyBot’s base source code can now be found on GitHub, so any miscreant can use the malware for their own attacks.

The group behind EnemyBot is Keksec, a collection of experienced developers, also known as Nero and Freakout, that have been around since 2016 and have launched a number of Linux- and Windows-based bots capable of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and possibly mining cryptocurrency. Securonix first wrote about EnemyBot in March.

A report by Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs researchers in April found that newer…