Attackers Leverage Open Source in New BYOB Attack

guest · Jan 17, 2019

Attackers Leverage Open Source in New BYOB Attack
January 17, 2019
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/attackers-leverage-open-source-in/

An attack leveraging the open-source Build Your Own Botnet (BYOB) framework has reportedly been intercepted by Israeli cybersecurity firm Perception Point’s incident response team. According to the team, this appears to be the first time the BYOB framework has been found to be used for fraudulent activity in the wild.

The continued growth of these hacking kits allows any script kiddie or malicious attacker to leverage this framework and carry out attacks that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

According to the team’s email analysis, victims received an email with an HTML attachment containing both a link to a phishing site impersonating the Office 365 login page and script code that automatically downloaded malware to the victim’s computer. The payload then awaits command after connecting to the attackers server.

“The attack was easily prepared using the BYOB framework; hence, it doesn't cost the attacker much investment, so I would expect to see more BYOB used in the future.”
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guest · Jan 17, 2019

More information about the open-source project BYOB is available on Github:

BYOB (Build Your Own Botnet)
https://github.com/malwaredllc/byob

BYOB is an open-source project that provides a framework for security researchers and developers to build and operate a basic botnet to deepen their understanding of the sophisticated malware that infects millions of devices every year and spawns modern botnets, in order to improve their ability to develop counter-measures against these threats.
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