Meet DoubleGuns (a.k.a. ShuangQiang), one of China's largest malware botnets

guest · May 26, 2020

Qihoo & Baidu disrupt malware botnet with hundreds of thousands of victims
Meet DoubleGuns, one of China's largest malware botnets
May 26, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/qihoo...botnet-with-hundreds-of-thousands-of-victims/

Because Chinese users usually hang out in their own corner of the internet, behind the Great Firewall, we tend to forget that they are also targeted by malware on a daily basis; albeit different malware, and not usually the same that targets everyone else.

For the past three years, the DoubleGuns trojan has emerged to take the crown as one of China's largest malware botnets.
n an interview with ZDNet earlier today, Chinese antivirus vendor Qihoo 360 says DoubleGuns is exclusively found in China and is believed to have infected hundreds of thousands of Chinese users at the time of writing, with millions of historical infections over the past years.
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Its primary purpose is still to infect users with MBR and VBR bootkits, install various malicious drivers, and then steal credentials from local apps, with a focus on Steam accounts.
In addition, DoubleGuns also acts as adware and spamming module.
QIHOO AND BAIDU TEMPORARILY DISRUPT DOUBLEGUNS
In a blog post last week, Qihoo 360 says it recently teamed up with fellow Chinese tech giant Baidu to disrupt the botnet's operations, which have grown too large to be ignored.
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The disruption is considered temporary, as other parts of the botnet's infrastructure are still running, and the botnet's operators are still at large.
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