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abuse-ch.bsky.social

@abuse-ch.bsky.social

Fighting malware and botnets

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Once authenticated, you will need to: ➡️ Use the new domain: {{platform}}-api.abuse.ch (where the platform can be urlhaus, threatfox or mb for MalwareBazaar) ➡️ Insert your unique Auth Key before the file name (obtained via auth.abuse.ch)

Nyxar Stealer with potential Turkish roots 🇹🇷, sold as malware-as-a-service with of 60 modules, including: 🪝 Browser credential and cookies stealer 💬 Messaging app credential stealer (Discord, Telegram, etc) 👛 Crypto wallet stealer 🎮 Gaming app credential stealer (Steam, Epic, etc)

Fake DocuSign emails luring recipients into downloading a fake Adobe Acrobat Reader update, leading to ConnectWise #ScreenConnct RMM 🖥️🖱️ email ➡️ Link ➡️ PDF ➡️ MSI Payload delivery URLs: 📕 data.vaceditions .com/wp-content/new-statement.pdf ⚙️ acrob .my-adobe-plugins-update .top

🚨 Heads up: file exports are changing from October 21st Exports will require authentication. Already authenticated? You can keep exporting, there's just a small change to the export URLs👇

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Why the change? Some users were pulling exports too often, putting extra strain on the platforms. This feature matters to the community, so we want to keep it running smoothly for everyone 💪 👉 Authenticate now so you're ready: auth.abuse.ch #ThreatIntel #SharingIsCaring

🚨 Heads up: file exports are changing from October 21st Exports will require authentication. Already authenticated? You can keep exporting, there's just a small change to the export URLs👇

A couple of months in and the Community Hub is thriving 🤩 ... 36,441 contributions across all platforms in the last 30 days (+30.8%) 🔥🔥🔥 @geenensp 🥇 on URLhaus (78-month streak!!) @TheRavenFile 🥇 on ThreatFox @whack_sh 🥇 on MalwareBazaar Go see the full Top10 leaderboards 💛 👉 community.abuse.ch

We recently sinkholed a DDoS #botnet of 200,000 compromised Android TV boxes infected with #CECbot malware 🕵️‍♀️. Shortly after, the threat actor responded by registering a rather specific botnet C2 domain 📡 spamhaushackers .at

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT FOR TOP CONTRIBUTORS! 🚨 We’ve been working on something huge and the cat 🐈️ is finally out of the bag 👀 ... we’ve officially partnered with Modat to give FREE Magnify licenses to our top contributors! 🎉🔥

You give your time, brainpower, and expertise to this community 👏. You hunt down the bad guys every single day - we want to make sure you have the best tools 🛠️ available to do what you do for the good of the internet every single day!

#BoratRAT spreading using similar tactics as #ClickFix 👇 1️⃣ Fake Microsoft Security Verification 🔑 leading to malicious PowerShell execution 🖱️ 2️⃣ Command triggers a DNS TXT request to recapture-robot .today 🌐 to obtain a PowerShell script 📜 3️⃣ Script drops payload, infecting host with BoratRAT 💻

We identified a new malware called #HypeAgent which acts as information stealer & loader. It is dominantly spread through malspam 📧, first observed on August 1, 2026 🔭👀 Key Capabilities ⤵️ 🕵️ Stealer & Loader: Supports 200+ commands; drops/executes payloads, including crypto miners 💸

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HypeAgent communicates via WebSocket using JSON. Here are some Botnet C2 servers we have been observed ⤵️ 📡 31.40.204.178:7080 WhiteLabel 🇹🇷 📡 94.26.3.211:7443 Stellar Group SAS 🇫🇷 📡 192.109.139.91:7443 Stellar Group SAS 🇺🇸 📡 195.177.94.60:7443 Stellar Group SAS 🇫🇷 📡 107.175.148.122:7443 HostPapa 🇺🇸

We identified a new malware called #HypeAgent which acts as information stealer & loader. It is dominantly spread through malspam 📧, first observed on August 1, 2026 🔭👀 Key Capabilities ⤵️ 🕵️ Stealer & Loader: Supports 200+ commands; drops/executes payloads, including crypto miners 💸

🔎 Targeted Harvesting: Steals web browser & email credentials, crypto wallets, and gaming accounts (Steam, Roblox) 🎮 🤖 AI & Platform Cookie Stealing: Targets a list of hardcoded domains like Grok, Anthropic, Coinbase, ByBit, Instagram, and Rockstar Games for which it steals session

cookies 🍪 💰 Electron App Webinjects: Intercepts activity on desktop apps like Exodus Wallet 👛 Artifacts observed ⤵️ 1️⃣ Stores stealers logs under C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\hype-YYYY-MM-DD.log 2️⃣ Uses HTTP host header "X-Hype-Agent-Token" during botnet C2 communication

StealC C2s dropping OverlordRAT, using CloudFlare and Microsoft look-a-like domains 👁️ 🌐 cloud-flare-authenticator .link 🌐 cloud-flare-authenticator .click 🌐 update-microsoft-data .services 📡 89.34.90.45:443 OverlordRAT #botnet C2 server ⤵️ 🌐 download-windows-update .live 📡 151.243.113.94:5173

Over the past days, active #malspam campaigns targeting LatAm users 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇲🇽 have been delivering the Grandoreiro banking trojan 🏦💰 📧 Email ➔ 📜 JS file ➔ 📑 Fake PDF download Final payload is hosted on MediaFire 🔥 free file hosting

C2 network traffic is rather trivial to detect as #Grandoreiro is using Embarcadero Delphi compilation tools' HTTP user agent 🖥️⤵️ User-Agent: Embarcadero URI Client/1.0 🔎 Botnet C2 domain resolved via Google DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH): devilmaycry.servehumour .com 👀

🔍 Fake #COLDCARD domain with opendir: hardware-data .com ➡️Tucows Domains 🇺🇸 ⚙️ Rogue GitHub user with 19 code repositories: github.com/kaswareteam/ 🔌 ScreenConnect RMM botnet C2s (Port 8041 TCP): 🇺🇸 DeltaHost : hitpanels .com ➡️ 185.174.101.132 hitspanels .com➡️185.174.101.132

📢 SERVICE UPDATE | As you may have noticed, we've experienced some downtime recently which was largely caused by a small number of users exceeding our Fair Use Policy. To protect platform stability and ensure fair access for everyone as our user base grows, we are introducing API rate limits. 1/2

It's here!! The @abuse_ch #CommunityHub is LIVE 🔥🔥🔥 Every day, this community shares data that helps take down malicious infrastructure and now you can see the scale of it, all in one place. The Hub gives you a live view of:

➡️ Total community contributions ➡️ Top 10 Leaderboards ➡️ Monthly contribution trends across the community ....and a place to track your own impact! Our community is bigger than any one platform. It's a global network of researchers working together to disrupt malware, botnets, and cybercrime.

Interesting unlabeled malware sample shared by our friend smica83, apparently targeting UA users 🇺🇦🕵️ The malware sample: 1️⃣ Obtains the DNS A record of ns2.theendlessweb .com 2️⃣ Queries directly the DNS A record (207.90.251 .10) for the DNS TXT record of sni13.docsmanagement.endl .site

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global-research .space has been registered almost a year ago, which suggests that this campaign is already running since quite a while 📅 It also returns a fake HTTP 404, which indicates that the payload delivery is restricted to a handful targets 🎯

Interesting unlabeled malware sample shared by our friend smica83, apparently targeting UA users 🇺🇦🕵️ The malware sample: 1️⃣ Obtains the DNS A record of ns2.theendlessweb .com 2️⃣ Queries directly the DNS A record (207.90.251 .10) for the DNS TXT record of sni13.docsmanagement.endl .site