Category Encryption

Hacker News:
Russian Hackers Have Infiltrated U.S. Household and Small Business Routers, FBI Warns
Original Article: MSN News

The FBI has recently thwarted a large-scale cyberattack orchestrated by Russian operatives, targeting hundreds of routers in home offices and small businesses, including those in the United States.

These compromised routers were used to form “botnets”, which were then employed in cyber operations worldwide.

The United States Department of Justice has attributed this cyberattack to the Russian GRU Military Unit 26165. Countermeasures undertaken by authorities ensured that the GRU operators were expelled from the routers and denied further access, ABC News reported.

The GRU deployed a specialized malware called “Moobot,” associated with a known criminal group, to seize control of susceptible home and small office routers, converting them into “botnets” — a network of remotely controlled systems.

The Justice Department, in an official statement, explained, “Non-GRU cybercriminals installed the Moobot malware on Ubiquiti Edge OS routers that still used publicly known default administrator passwords. GRU hackers then used the Moobot malware to install their own bespoke scripts and files that repurposed the botnet, turning it into a global cyber espionage platform.”

Utilizing this botnet, Russian hackers engaged in various illicit activities, including extensive “spearphishing” campaigns and credential harvesting campaigns against targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government, such as governmental, military, security and corporate entities in the United States and abroad.

Botnets pose a significant challenge for intelligence agencies, hindering their ability to detect foreign intrusions into their computer networks, Reuters notes.

In January 2024, the FBI executed a court-approved operation dubbed “Operation Dying Ember” to disrupt the hacking campaign. According to the Department of Justice, the FBI employed malware to copy and erase the malicious data from the routers, restoring full access to the owners while preventing further unauthorized access by GRU hackers.

FEDOR was designed as an android able to replace humans in high-risk areas, such as rescue operations,” Andrey Grigoriev, director of Russia’s Advanced Research Fund, said.

Bionic Backdrop

Bionic Backdrop Digital Video Screen Media – Events, Rock Shows, DJ, Performances of Any Kind.
New Features Include A Hidden Drop Down Menu
(Mouse Over or Tap In The Top Black Header)
With Casting Support from Desktop or Mobile.
Tested on Chromium (Solid) and Firefox(Not Recommended)
Lyrics Library is active and still Beta (Opens in new window).
Binary Output is Currently Disabled (Beta Only)

Bionic Home Page

This is just a fun little toy that happened while working on MySQL Automation.
The files used are first_names.txt, last_names.txt and domains.txt.
Reading random lines from the files in order creates the “Fake Email Address” and using [array_rand($variable)]; each email address is somewhat unique as I’m only using 80,000 names (give or take a few hundred).

All Files: fake-email-generator.zip

#!/bin/bash
$first_names = 'first_names.txt';
$last_names = 'last_names.txt';
$dom = 'domains.txt';

    $firstname = file($first_names);
    $fdata = $firstname[array_rand($firstname)];
    $first = $fdata;

        $lastname = file($last_names);
        $ldata = $lastname[array_rand($lastname)];
        $last = $ldata;

    $comd = file($dom);
    $edata = $comd[array_rand($comd)];
    $com = $edata;

        $first = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $first);
        $first = strtolower($first);
        $last = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $last);
        $last = strtolower($last);
        $com = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $com);

    echo $first."@".$last.$com;]

This is a Basic Encryption and Decryption Form using PhP.

Simple-PhP-Encryption-Decryption.php