Kraken Botnet
Summary
Despite being a relatively new player on the botnet scene, the Kraken Botner has been infecting machines and growing its footprint rapidly. According to a report released by ZeroFoxs cybersecurity researcher Stephan Simon, the operators of Kraken have started to generate sizeable profits from the threatening operations, reaching $3,000 approximately every month as seen from statics taken from the cryptocurrency mining pool Ethermine. The cybercriminals can exercise far more granular control over the infected systems, with the ability to issue commands to individual victims. The later Kraken versions can activate persistence mechanisms, collect various information about the breached system, fetch and execute additional files and unsafe payloads, run arbitrary commands, snap screenshots and more. More focus has been put into collecting cryptocurrency wallet credentials with the attackers targeting Zcash, Atomic, Bytecoin, Ethereum, Exodus, Guarda, Electrum, Armory and Jaxx Liberty.
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