Month: March 2016

Alpha Testing the AlphaLeon HTTP Bot

Dennis Schwarz on March 9, 2016.

ASERT was initially alerted about an emerging threat called AlphaLeon by Deep & Dark Web intelligence provider Flashpoint in August 2015. It caught and kept our interest because it sounded like it could be a new “banker” malware family. While it took some time to […]

Dennis Schwarz on March 2, 2016.

At the end of 2014, ASERT presented research where we mapped some DDoS booter advertisements on Russian language forums to their behind-the-scenes DDoS botnet infrastructures. For this post, we will follow up on that research a bit by looking at another one of these mappings […]

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Month: March 2016

Alpha Testing the AlphaLeon HTTP Bot

Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter